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Brilliant visionary yarn paintings of the shaman-artist Jose Benitez Sanchez emerge transformed into two-dimensional form.

This comprehensive volume brings to light the wondrously inventive clay people, mythological creatures, and effigy vessels of the Mojave people, recording this Southwest Indian ceramic art and a complete catalog of the Dillingham Collection of Mojave Ceramics, one of the largest and most complete Mojave assemblages in the world, at the Indian Arts Research Center for the School for Advanced Research.

Despite the centrality of ceramics to Mojave culture, Mojave pottery is virtually unknown today. Museums have mostly small, unrepresentative, and largely undocumented collections, and the works have received little attention from scholars and collectors.This comprehensive volume brings to light the wondrously inventive clay people, mythological creatures, and effigy vessels of the Mojave people, recording this Southwest Indian ceramic art in m...

A book about the author's time among the Huichol people, considered the most authentically "traditional" of all Mexican Indians, in west Mexico's Sierra Madre Occidental. It includes transcriptions of myths that function as charters for "being Huichols, " descriptions of deities, rituals, beliefs, as well as discussion of the place of hallucinogens in Huichol culture.