Celebrating Traditions at Acoma Pueblo
THE 2,000 LUMINARIAS, set and lit by hand, line the road up the mesa to Acoma Pueblo’s 370-foot-high Sky City. Inside the 1629 San Esteban del Rey Mission Church, tribal dancers pound their feet onto…
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Discover a Santo Wonderland
SEPARATED FROM THEIR NEAREST SUPPLY points in Mexico, Spanish colonial–era artists in New Mexico made do with the materials they found here. Cottonwood branches and roots became bultos, or statues…
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Keeping the Faith for New Mexico's Historic Churches
THE LITTLE CHAPEL IN THE PASTORAL Gallinas River Valley had seen decades of cherished rites before it began to crumble. In 2019, historic preservationists undertook lifesaving actions to firm up San…
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What We're Reading: Murder at Sleeping Tiger
AT A FICTIONAL MEDITATION CENTER near Taos, all is not Zen. A record snowstorm closes roads, people fall dead, and Sheriff Ulysses Walker suspects … murrderr. Dixon-based behavioral therapist C.R…
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Manhattan Project Leaders, Frozen in Time
IN THE END, J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER and Leslie Groves’s time in Los Alamos flitted past quickly. Their legacy, however, lives on—not only in a pair of bronze statues downtown but also in the city’s…
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Piecing Together Mimbres History
THE COW PASTURE’S RAIN-DAMPENED soil bucks and falls in irregular patterns, evidence of past archaeological digs on the NAN Ranch, near Silver City. Chest-high sacaton grass, interspersed with native…
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Mineral Museum Displays Rock-Solid Collection
THE GEODES AND TURQUOISE draw most visitors, Kelsey McNamara tells me. The curator of the Mineral Museum on the New Mexico Tech University campus, in Socorro, interrupts my reverie at a vitrine…
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What We're Reading: Wild New World
IT COMES OUT IN LATE OCTOBER, but the new Dan Flores book is worth the wait. In Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals & People in America (W.W. Norton), the Santa Fe–based author delivers epic…
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Check Out These Books on Native Pottery
POLYCHROME, BLACK-ON-RED, polished blackware, Jeddito yellow ware … the types of Native pottery and their evolutionary arcs provide a rich field of study for art historians, archaeologists, and…
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Where to Find Authentic Native Pottery
AT THE Indian Pueblo Cultural Center, in Albuquerque, permanent and temporary exhibits focus on New Mexico pueblos and their art, history, and culture. The archaeology collection at the Maxwell Museum…
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