Engraving of a painting by James William Abert, depicting the trail to the Acoma Pueblo in northwestern New Mexico, ca. 1848. From the collections of the Southern Methodist University Central University Libraries.
Tag: New Mexico
Something colorful to mark the first day of my tenth year on tumblr.
Portico columns at the IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Something colorful to mark the first day of my tenth year on tumblr.
Portico columns at the IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Adobe.
Institute of American Indian Arts – Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Adobe.
Institute of American Indian Arts – Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Kissing birds, chalice, Venus.
This is one of the most intriguing rock art panels I saw at Petroglyph National Monument. For one, it is oddly placed, as though the rock slab was deliberately relocated and oriented away from the main field of volcanic boulders on the mesa’s slope.
It is tempting to read a left-to-right narrative from the figures, though there is no reason to suppose that the artisan who made these glyphs intended to express any kind of linear idea. The figures are not words, but mnemonic prompts that recall histories or myths or dreams and visions. If there are stories to tell they are oral transmissions, and the glyphs are just reminders and cues.
And I really have no reason to call the central glyph a chalice other than that is what it looks like to me. The four-pointed star is typically described as a representation of Venus (the planet, not the goddess) by descendants of the ancient Puebloans.
Kissing birds, chalice, Venus.
This is one of the most intriguing rock art panels I saw at Petroglyph National Monument. For one, it is oddly placed, as though the rock slab was deliberately relocated and oriented away from the main field of volcanic boulders on the mesa’s slope.
It is tempting to read a left-to-right narrative from the figures, though there is no reason to suppose that the artisan who made these glyphs intended to express any kind of linear idea. The figures are not words, but mnemonic prompts that recall histories or myths or dreams and visions. If there are stories to tell they are oral transmissions, and the glyphs are just reminders and cues.
And I really have no reason to call the central glyph a chalice other than that is what it looks like to me. The four-pointed star is typically described as a representation of Venus (the planet, not the goddess) by descendants of the ancient Puebloans.
Goat’s-beard (Tragopogon dubius), Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Goat’s-beard (Tragopogon dubius), Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Verdure, high desert style.
Petroglyph National Monument, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Dithyramb 