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Summary: December 31 2005 NEW MEXICO HISTORICAL REVIEWS FEATURES SAINTS OF THE PUEBLOS Carrillo provides brief historical background on each pueblo and its patron saints and then describes the salient characteristics of the pottery produced at the pueblo His insights into this subject are thoughtful and provocative The book serves as a poignant and useful reminder of the Catholic traditions of the Pueblo Indians meshed as they are in subtle ways with traditional indigenous spiritual practices The book is attractively designed and produced William Wroth New Mexico Historical Review Winter 2006 December 31 2005 NEW MEXICO HISTORICAL REVIEWS REVIEWS TAPESTRY OF KINSHIP Over the past seventy years there has been a great deal of scholarly interest in the origins of the distinctive tradition of New Mexico santos painted and sculpted images of saints and the different styles that became prominent in the florescent period of New Mexican image making ca 1800 1860 The most recent and exciting research in this field appears in A Tapestry of Kinship by Jose Antonio Esquibel and Charles M Carrillo The authors combine exhaustive documentary research in the Archdiocese of Santa Fe Museum and Archives and the Spanish and Mexican Archives of New Mexico with stylistic and technical analysis of actual peices Existing documentary records concerning the early arts in New Mexico are few compared to those of other regions However by diligent search into the extant records the authors have oput together a convincing picture of the close network of relationships that existed among families of carpenters and image makers in Santa Fe prior to 1860 Further they have suggested possible new identifications of the artists responsible for existing bodies of work thereby beginning to solve questions which have concerned scholars for many years With the density and complexity of documentary data presented here this book is geared toward the scholar and aficionado of the art of the santero rather than the general public The publishers are to be congratulated for publishing such a scholarly work with obviously so limited an audience While the book is focused on the work of a small group of carpenters and santeros implicit in it are larger issues concerning the fabric of life in Santa Fe Using the methods so ably employed by Esquibel and Carrillo a much fuller picture than we currently have could be drawn of the cultural and socio economic history of early nineteenth century New Mexico William Wroth New Mexico Historical Review Winter 2006

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