Polly Schaafsma
Author
Pub. Date
1995
Description
Presents Muench's beautiful photos of the petroglyphs and pictographs chipped, chiseled, and painted in prehistoric and historic times onto boulders and rock walls in the Southwest and in California, Baja California, and the Columbia River gorge. Anthropologist Polly Schaafsma provides an introductory essay and commentary on the background of the people who created the rock art and the world they inhabited.
Pub. Date
c2000
Description
"The Kachina, or rain deity, stands at the center of the Pueblo Indian religious experience. In the Pueblo belief, the kachina is responsible for the tribe's very survival, for without his intervention the crops will not grow, the cisterns will not be filled, the rivers will not flow." "In Kachinas in the Pueblo World, fourteen noted scholars, among them Fred Eggan, J. J. Brody, and Dennis Tedlock, examine the role of the kachina in the cultures of...
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