r this discussion comes from journal literature and a museum catalog from an exhibit of pueblo pottery at the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology at the University of New Mexico.
Pueblo pottery has been a focus for anthropological study for decades. As early as the 1920s, Ruth Bunzel lived with Zuni a native, Catalina Zuni, observed how artists performed their work within the traditionally defined limits of established styles, and wrote one of the early books on the topicùThe Pueblo Potter: A Study of Creative Imagination in Primitive Art (1929) (Hardin 1993:259). Her work, assigned by her mentor, Professor Boas, was to study how Zuni potters opera
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