MIMBRES MYTHOLOGY - Southwestern Studies Monograph 56 [SOLD]

MIMBRES MYTHOLOGY - Southwestern Studies Monograph 56

by Patt Carr

Publisher: The University of Texas at El Paso

Softcover, 1979, 49 pages, new condition

From the Back Cover

“The people who dwelled in the Mimbres Valley of New Mexico during the eleventh and twelfth centuries lacked a written language to record their history.  They left a more distinctive heritage, a pottery whose black-on-white designs often depicted the lore of the Mimbrenos.

“Pat Carr, award-winning author formerly with the English faculty of the University of Texas at El Paso, explains the stories found in these unusual bowls in Mimbres Mythology.  Originally published in 1979, the study is reproduced here in its entirety.

“The presence of the Mimbres myth bowls shows that the Pueblo complex of the Southwest did have . . . a literature—in a continuum that extended from sometime prior to 1000A.D. to present,” explains Dr. Carr.

“She relates the stories of the creation of the world and the emergence of the people from the Underworld; of a popular figure in American Indian lore, Kokopelli, the humpbacked flute player; and of other legendary figures such as the War Twins and the Spider Woman.”