POPULAR ARTS OF SPANISH NEW MEXICO [SOLD]

POPULAR ARTS OF SPANISH NEW MEXICO 

by E. Boyd

Museum of New Mexico Press, Santa Fe

Hardback with slipcover. First edition 1974, 518 pages, illustrated.  Presentation gift note on front page

From the Slipover

Rarely does a single volume contain the sum-total of knowledge concerning a culture or society.  This is such a book, and it is a most fitting milestone in the career of the author, who has devoted much of her life to the study of Spanish Colonial culture in what is now northern New Mexico.  

Between its covers a distinct society is revealed.  The society is austere, frugal, and simple: it had to be.  Although this society was in its heart and soul a part of Western Christendom, yet that source was thousands of miles and endless months away.  So, the people in this remotest province of northern New Spain were forced to re-create their own heritage from materials that were at hand.  What they did and how they did it are described by author E. Boyd.