HISPANIC NEW MEXICAN POTTERY [SOLD]

HISPANIC NEW MEXICAN POTTERY Evidence of Craft Specialization 1790-1890

Charles M. Carillo

LPD Press, Albuquerque, 1997

Hardback, slip cover, first edition 1997,  288 pages, 73 photographs, maps and illustrations. New copy

From the Foreword

“That Hispanic potters, dispersed far and wide, produced their wares mainly of local materials for local consumption may explain in part why their ceramic tradition has gone unnoticed by outsiders for so long.  More significant, in studying and selling the Southwest, scholars and boosters for generations have favored Indians over Hispanic New Mexicans. Village churches and Penitente rituals do not tell the whole story.  Henceforth, thanks to Charles M. Carillo’s invitation, which he admits is preliminary but suggestive, no historical archaeologist excavating a New Mexican Hispanic domestic site from this period will dare assume that Indians manufactured all the pottery that lies scattered about.  To do so will only invite a visit from the ghost of Tranqulina Ruybal.”