Desert Hawk Books

 

Southwestern Pottery:
Anasazi to Zuni

by Allan Hayes; photography by John Blom

 

10.5" x 9.5"
200 Pages
130 color photos
bibliography
index

Paperback

 

Southwestern Pottery: Anasazi to Zuni may be the most entertaining book you read this year. It's an art book, a history book, and a reference book that is fun to read and beautiful to look at. Showing more than eleven hundred pots, there isn't a more complete Southwestern pottery guide.

Tracing the art from its beginnings almost two thousand years ago to the present and showing pieces from every pottery-producing tribal group in the Southwest—Yuman to Hopi to Taos to Casas Grandes—it is the book the authors wished they had when the pottery bug first bit them. With humor and good sense, Al Hayes and John Blom explain what to look for when buying a pot, how much to pay, and when and how to trade.

Allan Hayes lives in Sausalito, CA and is also the author of Collections of Southwestern Pottery: Candlesticks to Canteens, Frogs to Figurines.

John Blom lives in Kentfield, CA.