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 [...]
History
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 [...]
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. — [...]
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 [...]
Twilight of the Long Drive in Southern New Mexico
BY B. BYRON PRICE Among the many outstanding photographs of cowboy and ranch life in Santa Fe’s Palace of [...]
The Box S Canyon Fight
BY DODY FUGATE In the 1990s, while cleaning up a collection of early pottery from a site near Zuni Pueblo, I [...]
A Tale of Two Paintings
BY MICHELLE GALLAGHER ROBERTS Two nearly identical paintings of a young cowboy named Gerald Marr: one is [...]
Dining on Horseflesh and Other Cowboy Heresies
Basashi is easy to chew, and mighty tasty when dipped in a garlic-soy sauce. Deep red in color, well-marbled, [...]
Back In The Saddle
BY JOSEPH TRAUGOTT Horses have always served as potent symbols of the West for easterners as well as locals. [...]
They Wove for Horses:
BY JOYCE BEGAY-FOSS Before the arrival of the horse, foot travel was a constant challenge for the Diné and [...]
Learning the Ropes:
BY RICK HENDRICKS Rope is one of man’s oldest tools. Almost every culture on Earth twisted animal hair, [...]
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