Ritual cache

On a clear, sunlit day in 1925, the psychologist Carl Jung stood by the small river that runs through the middle of Taos Pueblo, New Mexico. Writing later about this experience, Jung described silent, blanket-wrapped figures on the flat roofs of the adobe buildings, absorbed by the sight of the sun, and by the peaks of the Sangre de Cristo range rising above the sweeping plateau (see Scully essay in this book, fig. 5). An elderly Indian spoke unexpectedly from behind the visitor: “Do you not …

Vessels depicted in the following plate section continue the representation of objects—begun in the preceding essays—that are included in the accompanying exhibition. Our understanding of the inventive designs of Casas Grandes artists and the cultural phenomenon to which they belong is only beginning, and it is therefore important to be broadly inclusive, expanding an awareness of Casas Grandes pottery within a context of the other Southwestern ceramic traditions to which it is related. The …