Above: Dominique Toya works on a melon swirl pot. Photographs by Stefan Wachs. DOMINIQUE TOYA TELLS US NOT to be shy, to gather closer so that we can dip our hands in two Ziploc bags filled to the…
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TONY ERIACHO JR. ARRANGED A COUPLE of pieces of silver jewelry on the table of his well-marked booth. He was readying a carefully planned presentation, one he’d given many times before. It was 2013…
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Photograph by John McCauley “The earth is shaking / From our beating the basket drums” —Tewa song So much depends on rain. Native peoples throughout the Southwest pray for it, dance for it, build its…
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Above: Ship Rock. Photograph by Jory Vander Galien. Some 30 million years ago, the angry lava of a rumbling volcano seethed to life. Magma left in the volcano’s neck cooled into a cluster of ragged…
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All photographs by Gabriella Marks. THE CORNER BOOTH that Loren Aragon occupied at the Poeh Cultural Center’s Summer Art Fair at Pojoaque Pueblo was Native American market standard—rectangular tables…
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Above: Grace Rosario Perkins works on her pop-up exhibit at Loom Gallery. Photographs by Brian Leddy. LOOM'S GALLERY EXHIBIT space—a three-by-ten-foot leftover storefront on downtown’s Coal…
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Above: Nocona Burgess in his Santa Fe studio. Photograph by John McCauley. The 97th Santa Fe Indian Market brings more than 150,000 artists and collectors to town (swaia.org), among them Comanche…
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Hayes Leekya's bear fetish, Enrike Leekya's elk, Sara Leekya's white fox, and Delvin Leekya's frog on display at Keshi, the Zuni Connection in Santa Fe. Photography by Inga Hendrickson. EVERY FETISH…
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Above: Los Matachines Dancers perform on Christmas Day in Ohkay Owingeh Pueblo. This December 12 dance continues to be performed at Jemez Pueblo. December 1948 To honor Our Lady of Guadalupe on her…
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Above, from left: San Ildefonso artists who worked on the pots include Evone Martinez, Johnny Cruz, Becky Martinez, N. Summer Martinez, Barbara Gonzales (seated), Cavan Gonzales, and Eva Moquino…
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