An Analysis of Hohokam Pottery Design (Pamphlet)

Description

Author: Amsden, Charles Avery  (1899-1941)

Publisher: Gila Pueblo (Globe, AZ)

Pub Date: 1936

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fair.  Binding tight, but wearing.  No folds.  Previous owner’s stamp on upper front cover corner and on upper corner title page.  Upper front cover corner has an approx. 1″ bend.  As with all of the Medallion Papers, the edges are worn, torn, frayed.  It’s that overhanging edge.  Upper edge ffep and title page have small triangular chip, pieces still attached.

Notes: Medallion Papers No. XXIII.  “…Hohokam was once a style purely of small elements and life forms, with most of its vessel forms, certainly its most distinctive and non-competitive ones, co-existent.  They tended to be small, except perhaps the flaring bowl.  Somehow a geometric influence crept into design, and after a long struggle–during which it learned with difficulty to express itself in proper, smooth geometric stye, going from curvilinear to rectilinear in the process–it vanquished the other.”  (From the Conclusions, pages 49-50)  More a booklet than a pamphlet, but…