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Author Naranjo Morse, Nora, 1953-

Title Mud woman : poems from the clay / Nora Naranjo-Morse.

Imprint Tucson : University of Arizona Press, ©1992.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  811.54 N164m 1992    ---  Available
Description 127 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm.
text txt rdacontent
unmediated n rdamedia
volume nc rdacarrier
Series Sun tracks ; v. 20
Sun tracks ; v. 20.
Contents Mud Woman. When Mud Woman begins ; Childlike enthusiasm ; When the clay calls ; There is nothing like an idea ; Living exhibit under the museum's portal ; Tradition and change ; Mud Woman's first encounter with the world of money and business -- Wandering Pueblo woman. Wandering Pueblo woman ; Towa ; Two worlds ; Money breasts ; Sometimes I am a sponge -- Pearlene and friends. Pearlene ; Pearlene's aunts ; Pearlene's roots ; Moonlight ; Coyote's attempt at seduction ; Well-traveled coyote -- Home. Gia's song ; Sometimes she just sits ; Sister's dream ; One adobe at a time ; Children ; My father's hands ; My father's feet ; Ta ; Oe khee ung ; Clay rituals ; Pit firing a milestone -- Sculpture specifications.
Summary Uses clay pottery and words to capture the essence of what it means to be a twentieth-century Pueblo Indian woman.
Subject Pueblo poetry.
Pueblo pottery -- Poetry.
ISBN 0816512817 (pbk.)
9780816512812 (pbk.)
0816512485 (cl.)
9780816512485 (cl.)

 
    
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