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Modern Pottery-Making In San Anton, Mexico, Gordon J. Hadden
Modern Pottery-Making In San Anton, Mexico, Gordon J. Hadden
Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science
The principal contemporary pottery-making techniques which are recognized for the Mexican area are; handmodeling, building, molding with convex molds, molding with concave molds, molding with concave "vertical halves" molds, modeling with revolving "moldes," and wheel-throwing (Foster 1955: 3) . We can attribute this diversity of pottery-making techniques to the blending of pre-Conquest native practices with those of the postConquest Spanish.
Pueblo Indian Religion, Medicine, And The Good Life, Mary Elizabeth Hamlin
Pueblo Indian Religion, Medicine, And The Good Life, Mary Elizabeth Hamlin
Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science
While a public health education trainee with the Division of Indian Health, United States Public Health Service, I became interested in the socio-religious structure of the Pueblo Indians of New Mexico. During the nine month field training period spent in the Albuquerque area I investigated the existing ethnological literature concerning the Pueblo Indians. Research investigation in the area of the relationship between religion and medicine was accomplished by study of literature and field observation and inquiry. My concern was not so much the epidemiological determinants of disease and its prevalence. Rather it was with the "behavior of the people in …