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Play Date

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BY MEREDITH DAVIDSON PHOTOGRAPHY BY BLAIR CLARK
When we play, we are engaged in the purest expression of our humanity, the truest expression of our individuality. – Stuart Brown, founder, National Institute for Play  (more…)

Micaceous Pots Are For Cooking, Still

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BY DEBORAH MADISON
Just as chiles might be regarded as the iconic food of New Mexico, micaceous pots are the region’s iconic cookware. While at heart they are utilitarian, micaeous pots are often treated as precious objects to display and handle with great care. (more…)

The Archaeologist’s recipe for a Lasting Glow

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BY PATRICIA CROWN
I was asked to submit a recipe for the FUZE.SW food + folklore conference, taking place on Museum Hill September 12–14. I’m an archaeologist, not a chef, so I thought I’d share my professional secret for keeping that youthful glow you so often see on archaeologists. (more…)

The Early Farmers of Jemez Cave

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BY MATTHEW J. BARBOUR
When most people think of people living in caves, they think of ancient hunters killing mammoths and discovering fire. While this is not a misconception, people have lived in caves throughout history. (more…)

El Cuento de Juana Henrieta

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DAMIEN FLORES
There was no wind the day Juana battled the machine. Smoke rose from the stacks of the downtown tortilla factory slow as the wrinkled and steady hands, las viejitas. (more…)

Chile, Corn, and…Carrots

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BY CYNTHIA BAUGHMAN
The New Mexico Association of Museums (NMAM) is composed of a couple hundred curators, conservators, registrars, museum administrators, volunteers, and other folk who toil in museums across our state to collect, preserve, and exhibit New Mexico’s cultural treasures. We here at El Palacio and the New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs enjoy being part of the organization and hobnobbing with our buddies from such wonderful sites as the Artesia Historical Museum and Art Center, the Bradbury Science Museum at Los Alamos, and Salmon Ruins Museum near Bloomfield. (more…)

From Pompeii To Santa Fe

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BY BARBARA ANDERSON
Food is such an evocative subject for all of us who love to eat. Even when the real thing isn’t right under your nose, images of food, like gorgeous color photographs of succulent fruits and vegetables or steaming plates loaded with enchiladas, make you salivate and head for the kitchen. (more…)

T. Harmon Parkhurst’s Final Frames

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BY DANIEL KOSHAREK

T. Harmon Parkhurst, one of the great photographic chroniclers of New Mexico in the early twentieth century, left the state for California in 1951. He had been gored by a bull while photographing a rodeo and moved to recuperate with his children. He never fully recovered and died on August 14, 1952, in California.Before he left, Parkhurst had begun experimenting with first-generation Kodachrome color transparency film. (more…)

The Mask Maker At Home In Bali

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BY LES DALY

He calls himself simply Anom. Among the Balinese he is respectfully known as Ida Bagus Anom Suryawan, reflecting his status as a Brahmin, the highest caste in Balinese society, and with it the influence that he carries. Yet, to welcome visitors warmly, a single name will do. It is a kind of personal balance, and in Bali the ideal of balance is always in the air. (more…)

In The Footprints of Allan Houser

Celebrating an Artist’s Influence

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BY CINDRA KLINE

WHAT MAKES AN ARTIST important or inspirational? Iconic? What sets a path to a legacy, and what earns one in the eyes of an audience? Whatever the answer, Allan Houser was born with a special ability to connect, through his art, with peoples all over the world. (more…)