Woven Identities - Basketry Art of Western North America Cards One cannot truly contemplate the

One cannot truly contemplate the history and culture of Santa Fe without the voices of the Native Americans--the original inhabitants of Po’oge

and subsequently in and around Alcalde

The highly readable texts and almost 800 beautiful full-color images come together in a unique way to convey hidden dimensions of meaning

in many passages

Woven Identities - Basketry Art of Western North America Cards One cannot truly contemplate theAn intriguing variety of baskets from 60 tribal groups and ranging from 800 years old to contemporary examples populate the pages of Valerie K. Verzuhs new book Woven Identities: Basketry Art of Western North America (Museum of New Mexico Press). Verzuh is a curator at the Museum of Indian Arts & Culture, where she has worked for 13 years. These are baskets as fine art. Thats what theyve become since the 1880s, when people no longer had the time to