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Title: New Mexico, the land of the delight makers; the history of its ancient cliff dwellings and pueblos
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: James, George Wharton, 1858- (from old catalog)
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Publisher: Boston, The Page company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress
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n that carried in her busy and artistic littlebrain the decorator goes to work. Her brush is made ofhair, or yucca fiber, and her colours ground with a mix-ture of yucca fruit syrup (to give them extra stickingqualities). The black pigment is mixed with water from boiledcleome serrulata, a flowering plant called by the Mexi-cans, waco. Many and various, strange and peculiar,striking and fantastic are the designs she conjures up.Some of them are purely geometrical — squares, paral-lelograms, circles, diamonds and the like; then there areflowers, trees, rocks, rain-clouds and other meteorologicalsymbols, birds, reptiles, animals, men and women, andoccasionally, the masked figures that represent their lesserdivinities. The ware is now ready to be fired. For this purposecakes of well-dried dung are gathered from the sheep andgoat pens. The pottery is placed on rocks to raise itslightly from the ground, and then the dung is built uparound and over it so as to form an oven. It is then set
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