Painted Ceramics of the Western Mound at Awatovi

Description

Author: Smith, Watson  (1897-1993)

Publisher: Peabody Museum

Pub Date: 1971

Binding: Paperback

Condition:  Fair.  Binding tight.  No tears, folds.  Previous owner’s name stamped on upper front cover corner and on all three text blocks.  Upper front cover corner has an approx. 1/8″ triangular area of wear (cover delamination?).   Lower front cover corner worn.  Upper rear cover corner has an approx. 1/4″ bend that extends through last 40 pages or so.  Lower rear cover corner worn, slight bend.  Edge and corner wear.

Notes: Papers of the Peabody Museum No. 38.  With the possible exception of “One Man’s Archaeology”, this may be Watson Smith’s magnum opus.  As J.O. Brew says in the Foreword to this volume, “Watson Smith was eminently qualified to make this study.  No only had he laid the groundwork for it in Marsh Pass, but he was a member of the staff of the Awatovi Expedition throughout the four years of major excavations at Awatovi, and had become intimately acquainted with another manifestation of the school of Hopi painting through his excavation and analysis of some 185 mural decorations (Smith, 1952).”  I wrote a blog post several years ago about Watson Smith, and nothing has changed my mind about him over the years.  ALL archaeological writing should be as good as Smith’s.