Fall 2022

Foreground: Unknown artist (Navajo), Hubbell Trading Post rug, ca. 1800-1890. Commercial Germantown wool. 81 7 8 × 62 inches. Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Edward H. Tatum. MIAC Collection: 36197/12. Background: Unknown artist (Navajo), Two Grey Hills rug, ca. 1910-1920. Handspun wool, aniline dye. 88 3 5 × 54 ¾ inches. Gift of the Santa Fe Opera. MIAC Collection: 56595/12.

Not So Niche

By Charlotte Jusinski In a recent email to a colleague, I found myself describing El Palacio as a “niche” [...]
The Trade and Exchange section features a reconstruction of a trading post featuring jewelry and silversmithing.

Full Circle

By Kim Suina MelwaniPhotographs by Tira Howard When I was young, my family had a subscription to National [...]
Dana Tai Soon Burgess. Photograph by Sueraya Shaheen, courtesy Dana Tai Soon Burgess.

Molten Identity

By Dana Tai Soon Burgess Dana Tai Soon Burgess’s new memoir, Chino and the Dance of the Butterfly (UNM [...]
Foreground: Jar, Acoma or Laguna Pueblo, ca. 1910. Clay, crushed potsherd temper, mineral and carbon paint, slip. 12 × 11 11/16 inches. Gift of Juan Olivas. MIAC Collection: 12024/12. Background: Loren Aragon (Acoma Pueblo), Ancestral Awakening, 2019-2022. Photograph by Tira Howard.

Evoking Empowerment

By Lillia McEnaney As visitors enter the Arts section of the Here, Now and Always at the Museum of Indian [...]
A copper medallion found at Coronado Historic Site was one of the items examined with confocal X-Ray fluorescence (XRF) technology by scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory.

Inside Out

By Hannah Sherk Los Alamos National Laboratory typically calls to mind cutting-edge advances in national [...]
Known as La Capilla de San Ysidro Labrador, this small family chapel was built in 1928 by Lorenzo López, who used rocks gathered from his property and mud from the nearby acequia to construct the walls. Photograph by Simone Frances, 2020.

This Old House

By Paul Weideman Santa Fe’s history lives in its buildings— in the places where people lived, worked, [...]
Kathleen Wall (Jemez) discusses her choice of pottery in the video portion of the Grounded in Clay exhibition, directed by Adam Shaening-Pokrasso.

Clay Community

By Almah LaVon Rice Their heads are tilted back, casting praise skyward. Eyes closed to everything but [...]
Early Southwestern archaeologist and photographer Charles F. Lummis, 1917. Photograph by Mojonnier Photo. Courtesy the Palace of the Governors Photo Archives (NMHM/DCA), neg. no. 007700.

Hunting Miss Deuel

By James E. Snead On September 1, 1912, Charles Fletcher Lummis—author, “anthropologist,” and [...]

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