Hopi summer
Subtitle: letters from Ethel to Maud
By: Carolyn O'Bagy Davis.
Publisher: Rio Nuevo Publishers
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Tucson, Ariz
Language: eng
Number of pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9781933855080
Subjects: Muchvo, Ethel Salyah -- Correspondence; Melville, Maud Seamen, -- 1880- -- Correspondence; Hopi women potters -- Arizona -- Correspondence; Hopi Indians -- Correspondence; Women art collectors -- Correspondence; Hopi Indians -- Social conditions; Arizona -- Social conditions
Description: Documents the story of the cross-cultural friendship between wealthy New Englander Maud Melville and Hopi potter Ethel Muchvo, who shared years of personal triumphs and sorrows as well as a traditional "Hopi summer" before tragic changes were inflicted on Pueblo culture, in an account based on diaries, letters, and personal photos.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Exploring America; title: The Hopi mesas; title: Ethel and Maud; title: Your loving friend; title: It is getting cold out here.