From 1935 to 1939, the Peabody Museum sponsored an
archaeological expedition at the ancient Pueblo and early Spanish
colonial site of Awatovi on the Hopi Reservation in Arizona. The
multidisciplinary project attracted professional and avocational
scholars from a wide range of disciplines. Former lawyer Watson
Smith was, at the time, an enthusiastic amateur archaeologist. He
joined the expedition as a volunteer during the 1936 season and
became one of its most productive researchers, as well as one of
the Southwest's foremost archaeological scholars.
In this classic volume of the Peabody Museum Papers series,
first published in 1952, Smith reported on the remarkable painted
murals found at Awatovi and other Puebloan sites in the underground
ceremonial chambers known as kivas. Now reissued in a stunning
facsimile edition, the volume includes color reproductions of the
original serigraphs by Louie Ewing. Smith's groundbreaking work
first brought to public and scholarly attention the sacred
wall-painting tradition of the aboriginal American Southwest. The
aesthetic power and symbolic imagery of this artistic tradition
still fascinates today. Archaeologists, art historians, collectors,
and artists alike will welcome the return of this long out-of-print
classic.
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