The Long Road Home
BY FRANCES LEVINE I am dirty, ragged and sunburnt, but of best cheer. My life’s work has begun at last. — [...]
Culture
Protecting New Mexico’s Cultural Resources
J. MICHAEL BREMER WITH SHELLEY THOMPSON Once a month my husband and I grab daypacks, hiking sticks, and [...]
Guilty Boxes
BY DODY FUGATE When I was very young my family and I used to travel from down south to visit a park in [...]
Archaeologists, Collectors, and Mueum Collections:
BY CHRIS MERRIMAN The relationship between professional archaeologists and private collectors has been [...]
Woodrow Ruin
BY JAKOB WILLIAM SEDIG Since 1971 the Museum of New Mexico (MNM) has owned one of the largest and [...]
Sylvanus Griswold Morley
BY JASON S. SHAPIRO Sylvanus Griswold Morley (1882–1948) has been cited as a possible model for Steven [...]
Linda Cordell, Southwestern Archaeologist
BY MAXINE MCBRINN Linda Cordell, the grande dame of Southwestern archaeology, died suddenly and peacefully at [...]
Archaeology in the Place of Suffering
BY MATTHEW J. BARBOUR AND DONALD E. TATUM Fort Sumner was established in 1862 to enforce the confinement of [...]
Cultural Connections:
BY VALERIE K. VERZUH The Diné baskets generally known as “wedding baskets” are actually woven for use in [...]
Woven Identities
By Valerie K Verzuh North American Indian baskets are cultural histories—documents of the aesthetics, [...]
Honoring New Mexico’s Creative Visionaries
BY CARRIE B. MORITOMO Edward Gonzales, one of New Mexico’s most popular and beloved artists, is among the [...]
The Decay of Nature, Suspended
BY LAURA ADDISON Great artworks have staying power — intellectually, if not always physically. Many [...]
A Tisket, a Tasket, What’s inside the Basket?
BY PENELOPE HUNTER-STIEBEL When conservator Landis Smith told me that she was working on an exceptional [...]
Archaeology of a Desk
BY DANIEL KOSHAREK The final gleanings of Kenneth Chapman’s life as an archaeologist and artist arrived in [...]
Shiprock and Mont St. Michel
WILLIAM CLIFT WTH KATHERINE WARE A longtime resident of New Mexico, photographer William Clift has returned [...]
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