Research Notes

Santa Fe’s Fort Marcy Military Reservation BY MATTHEW J. BARBOUR On August 15, 1846, General Stephen Watts [...]

BY HENRIETTA MARTINEZ CHRISTMAS If not for the colonial postal system, communications with Mexico and Spain [...]

The Search for Pilabó Pueblo and the First Piro Mission, Nuestra Señora del Socorro BY MICHAEL BLETZER One [...]

Finding Cochineal BY MARK MACKENZIE Enter the Museum of International Folk Art exhibition The Red That [...]

BY MARIANNA SHREVE SIMPSON On April 8, 1614, Castilian nobleman Don García de Silva y Figueroa set sail from [...]

BY DEBORAH MADISON Just as chiles might be regarded as the iconic food of New Mexico, micaceous pots are the [...]

BY PATRICIA CROWN I was asked to submit a recipe for the FUZE.SW food + folklore conference, taking place on [...]

BY MATTHEW J. BARBOUR When most people think of people living in caves, they think of ancient hunters killing [...]

BY MATTHEW J. BARBOUR In October 2008, the Santa Fe Community Convention Center opened at the northeast [...]

BY RICK HENDRICKS Rope is one of man’s oldest tools. Almost every culture on Earth twisted animal hair, [...]

BY CYNTHIA BAUGHMAN Several years ago curator Nicolasa Chávez was in Trujillo, Spain, conducting research [...]

BY KATE NELSON In the close confines of a Palace of the Governors gallery, a group of scientists wearing [...]