Archives of aboriginal knowledge Containing all the original paper laid before Congress respecting the history, antiquities, language, ethnology, pictography, rites, superstitions, and mythology, of the Indian tribes of the United States . AHf3{i:^r! •yiiS^Elia ^^:i<,m rai. ?rs^v,iT,s [ ^ STATE OF INDIAN ART. A. MODERN ART. The condition of the Moqui and Navajo Indians, without laying claim to much artof ancient origin, exhibits an mgenious adaptation of skill in their actual manners andcustoms. 1. Earthenware of the Pueblo Indians of New Mexico. The existing state of the potters art
Archives of aboriginal knowledge Containing all the original paper laid before Congress respecting the history, antiquities, language, ethnology, pictography, rites, superstitions, and mythology, of the Indian tribes of the United States . AHf3{i:^r! •yiiS^Elia ^^:i<,m rai. ?rs^v,iT,s [ ^ STATE OF INDIAN ART. A. MODERN ART. The condition of the Moqui and Navajo Indians, without laying claim to much artof ancient origin, exhibits an mgenious adaptation of skill in their actual manners andcustoms. 1. Earthenware of the Pueblo Indians of New Mexico. The existing state of the potters art among the Pueblo Indians of New Mexico,denotes the advantages derived from newly-acquired tastes, the result of contact andtraffic with the Spanish. Such are the forms of the vases. Figs. 1, 3, 4, 5, and the bowl,Fig. 6, Plate 38. The lingering taste for the gross imitative forms of the true Indianperiod, are seen very strongly characterized in the water-jugs. Figs. 2 and 7, and theladle. Fig. 8. This existence of two eras of taste, without mingling or fusion of them,is a curious evidence of the long periods of time required to eradicate old, and fix newnational tastes, and is a striking evidence of that undigested state of arts
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