Mojave Pottery, Mojave People: The Dillingham Collection of Mojave Ceramics

by Jill Leslie McKeever Furst

Book Overview

Despite the centrality of ceramics to Mojave culture, Mojave pottery is virtually unknown today. Museums have mostly small, unrepresentative, and largely undocumented collections, and the works have received little attention from scholars and collectors.This comprehensive volume brings to light the wondrously inventive clay people, mythological creatures, and effigy vessels of the Mojave people, recording this Southwest Indian ceramic art in more...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0933452659
• ISBN13: 9780933452657
• Release Date: July 2001
• Publisher: School of American Research Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 9.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.7" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

gift for Southwestern Friends

Our friends, who were raised on an Indian Reservation, loved this book and told us they learned a lot from it.