In His Own Skin
Above: Santa Fe artist Frank Buffalo Hyde explores charged issues in bright, playful images. “THAT'S MY REAL NAME, by the way,” Frank Buffalo Hyde announces out of the blue. “A lot of people think I…
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Category: Native American Culture
The Power of the Place
Above: Dancers from various pueblos and tribes, including Hopi from Arizona (pictured), perform at the IPCC on weekend afternoons . ON A BUSTLING BLOCK in Albuquerque’s North Valley, the Indian Pueblo…
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New Revelations
Above: Lloyd Kiva New designed this Southwest-patterned ensemble; it dates to the early 1980s. Photo by Kitty Leaken White leather Kiva bag with Charles Loloma detailing, from the 1950s. Photo by…
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Rattle and Drum
“Beat the drum once to enter a world of music as spirit.” So reads a sign on a gallery wall at the Museum of Indian Arts & Culture in Santa Fe, above a large wooden drum with a taut animal-hide top…
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Breaking Out
“Native art has always been in this small box,” says Jody Naranjo, the Santa Clara Pueblo potter who’s become one of the most successful artists of her generation. “No more. There’s a big world out…
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