SOUTHWEST SEMINARS PRESENTS
OCTOBER VOICES 2024
MONDAY NIGHTS AT 6 PM AT HOTEL SANTA FE
LECTURES 50 MONDAYS A YEAR (ALMOST)
A PUBLIC PROGRAM GRACIOUSLY ASSISTED BY HOTEL SANTA FE, A PICURIS PUEBLO ENTERPRISE
October 7 Dr. Eric Blinman
Archaeologist, Archaeological Support Services; Former Director, NM Office of Archaeological Studies (OAS), Department of Cultural Affairs; Participant, 2007 Colloquium, Past Human Responses to Climate Change, hosted by King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden; Former Acting Director, Museum of Indian Arts and Culture, Museum of New Mexico. Involved in Western American archaeology since 1967; Joined OAS in 1988. Specialties include pottery technology, paleoclimate studies, yucca & basketry textiles.
Archaeology as History: Assessing Models of the Puebloan Past
October 14 Dr. Carolyn E. Boyd
Archaeologist and Artist; Endowed Research Professor, Texas State University-San Marcos specializing in analysis of the 5,000 yr. old Pecos River style rock imagery found along the Lower Pecos Canyonlands of Texas and Mexico; Author, Rock Art of the Lower Pecos and The White Shaman Mural: An Enduring Creation Narrative (2017 Scholarly Book Award from Society for American Archaeology (SAA). Research support from National Geographic, National Endowment for the Humanities & National Science Foundation; Founder, SHUMLA Archaeological Research and Education Center: “Preserving the oldest ‘books’ in America”!
White Shaman & Enduring Myths of the Archaic Period: Rock Imagery in the Lower Pecos Canyonlands
October 21Verma Nequatewa, Hotevilla, Third Mesa, Hopi and Dr. Robert W. Rhodes
Verma: Hopi born & raised; distinguished jewelry artist (Sonwai); 25-year apprenticeship with her uncle, renowned jewelry artist Charles Loloma
Robert: 53 years of living on Hopi, teaching, learning, founded Hopitutuqaiki (The Hopi School); Author, Hopi Wicker Plaques and Baskets; and Ethnomusicologist.
Two Views of Hopi
October 28 Dr. Benjamin Aaron Bellorado
Anthropological archaeologist; Assistant Curator of Archaeology, Arizona State Museum; 25 years research in fieldwork, textile analyses, dendroarchaeology (tree ring dating), ceramic analysis, and ethnography in the U.S. Southwest. Current research on ways in which Ancestral Pueblo people expressed aspects of their social identities, group affiliations, and status using clothing, building decorations, and rock imagery; Directed projects in Bears Ears region (SE Utah), Central Mesa Verde, Flagstaff, and throughout Four Corners with extensive experience in collaboration with descendant native communities and museum collections.
Road Signs & Walking Shoes: Sandal Imagery Part & Parcel of Chaco Road System in San Juan Basin & Bears Ears Areas
$20 AT THE DOOR – OR – $75 FOR THE SERIES OF 4 LECTURES
PHOTO BY JEAN CLOTTES/SHUMLA
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