[NATIVE AMERICANS] S(tewart), D(orothy) N. Indian Ceremonial Dances in the Southwest.

Santa Fe, N(ew).M(exico).: Pictograph Press, (1950). First edition. 8vo. Unpaginated (18 pp.). Illustrated with eight color woodblock prints. Original limp printed pictorial wrappers, front wrapper with color woodblock print, staining to front and rear wrappers, spine largely perished but holding.

Rare color woodblock book on Southwest Native American ceremonial dance, here depicting the Corn Dance, Eagle Dance, Basket Dance, Buffalo Dance, Deer Dance, Comanche Dance, and Matachina Dance.

Dorothy Newkirk Stewart (1891-1955) was an American painter and printmaker. Born in Philadelphia, she studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and moved to New Mexico in 1925, where she was one of the first women to establish a private printing press in the Southwest. Produced in only a small number, this is one of only a few woodblock books Stewart self-published in her lifetime.

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[NATIVE AMERICANS] S(tewart), D(orothy) N. Indian Ceremonial Dances in the Southwest.

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[NATIVE AMERICANS] S(tewart), D(orothy) N. Indian Ceremonial Dances in the Southwest.

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