Penfield Gallery of Indian Arts

Informational Links

Here we will keep a list of links to sites that we consider the best sources of information on the art of the Native Americans of the Southwest. We hope that you will find them useful.

Online Essays and Interviews

Pottery by American Indian Women: Legacy of Generations by Susan Peterson

A Time of Visions, Interviews with Contemporary Native American Artists

Online Exhibits and Museums

The Heard Museum in Phoenix has many online exhibits available and a K-12 educational section.

Among the online exhibits at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University, are:

The Children of Changing Woman
Rainmakers from the Gods: Hopi Katsinam

Contemporary Hopi Arts and Crafts, from the Hopi Cultural Preservation Office

Guide to Hopi Kachinas

American Indians and the Natural World from the Carnegie Museum of Natural History has a section on:

The Hopi of the Southwest

To Touch the Past: Painted Pottery of the Mimbres People

Weisman Art Museum, University of Minnesota

Pueblo Pottery from the Internet Public Library

The Studio of the Santa Fe Indian School,

from the Fred Jones, Jr. Museum of Art at the University of Oklahoma

Pueblo Indian Watercolors, from the National Museum of American Art

Singing the Clay: Pueblo Pottery of the Southwest Yesterday and Today,

from the Frank H. McClung Museum of the University of Tennessee at Knoxville

Ethnological Collections of the Arizona State Museum

Navajo Rugs of the Hubbell Trading Post

Woven by the Grandmothers,

from the National Museum of the American Indian

The Museum of Anthropology at the University of Michigan has these exhibits:

The Hopi Kachina Collection

Acoma and Zuni Pottery

Guide to Native American Museums of New Mexico

Other Information

GreatNewMexico.com, comprehensive directory and guide to everything in New Mexico.

Navajo Rug Repair

Articles from the Wingspread Collector's Guide Online

700 AD-1989, Chronology of Textiles and Fiber Art in New Mexico

Allan Houser

Antique Indian Silver Jewelry, A brief history of Indian Silver work in the Southwest

Collecting Contemporary Navajo Weavings

Collecting and Change in Native American Basketry

Collecting Indian Pottery

Contemporary Expression of Traditional Native American Art

Contemporary Navajo Folk Art

The First Storyteller

Glossary of Pueblo Pottery Terms

Helen Hardin 1943 - 1984

How Pueblo Pottery is Made

Indian Fetishes

Indian Trade Blankets

Indigenous Perspectives on Indian Art

What Does This Indian Symbol Mean?

What is Heishi?

With a View to the Southwest: Dorothy Dunn