When Rain Gods Reigned

by Anderson, Duane; Tioux, Bea Duran

• ISBN13: 9780890134054
• ISBN10: 0890134057
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-10-01
• Publisher: Museum of New Mexico Pr

Summary

Rain gods and their relatives developed out of an earlier tradition of larger hollow clay figurines, the earliest of which was collected at Tesuque Pueblo in 1879. They continue to be produced at Tesuque Pueblo to this day, constituting the longest continuous figurative art tradition in the Southwest. This book traces the evolution of the rain god from tourist art to Indian self-identity and self-expression. Importantly, it studies a popular form that has heretofore failed to earn the serious attention of scholars and collecting institutions and further the discourse on how art is defined and valued.

Table of Contents

Foreword	7	(2)
Preface	9	(4)
Acknowledgments	13	(8)
Introduction	21	(8)
Santa Fe in Colonial and Postcolonial Times	29	(10)
Changing Life at Tesuque Pueblo	39	(12)
Clay Idols and Clay Gods	51	(16)
Rain Gods Reign	67	(20)
Rain Gods as Self-Expression	87	(14)
Makers and Memories	101	(8)
Appendix	109	(2)
Notes	111	(8)
Bibliography	119	(18)
Index	137