Title Explorers in Eden : Pueblo Indians and the promised land / Jerold S. Auerbach

Published Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2006

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Description 1 online resource (205 pages) : illustrations Contents Introduction: American holy land -- Cushing in Zuni -- Visitors and visions -- Representing the Southwest -- Salon in Taos -- Papa Franz's family -- Feminist utopia -- Conclusion Summary Beginning in the late nineteenth century, the pueblos of the Southwest frequently inspired Anglo-American visitors to express their sense of wonder and enchantment in biblical references. Frank Hamilton Cushing's first account of Zuni pueblo described a setting that looked like 'The Pools of Palestine'. Drawn to the Southwest, Mabel Dodge imagined "a garden of Eden, inhabited by an unfallen tribe of men and women." There she was attracted to Tony Luhan, a Taos Indian who looked "like a Biblical figure." When historian Jerold Auerbach first saw Edward S Curtis's early twentieth-century photograph 'Taos Water Girls, ' he realised that "here, indeed, was the biblical Rebecca, relocated to New Mexico from ancient Haran, where Abraham's faithful servant had journeyed to find a suitable wife for Isaac. Rebecca with her water pitcher is as familiar a biblical icon as Noah and his ark or Moses with the stone tablets. Curtis had recast her as the archetypal Pueblo maiden." The book uncovers an intriguing array of diaries, letters, memoirs, photographs, paintings, postcards, advertisements, anthropological field studies, and scholarly monographs. They reveal how Anglo-Americans disenchanted with modern urban industrial society developed a deep and rich fascination with pueblo culture through their biblical associations Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-195) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English Print version record digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Pueblo Indians -- History -- Sources Pueblo Indians -- Public opinion Pueblo Indians -- Social life and customs Indians in literature. Indians in art. Indians in popular culture -- Southwest, New Public opinion -- Southwest, New White people -- Southwest, New -- Relations with Indians HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- Southwest (AZ, NM, OK, TX) HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY) Discoveries in geography Indians in art Indians in literature Indians in popular culture Public opinion Pueblo Indians Pueblo Indians -- Public opinion Pueblo Indians -- Social life and customs Travel White people -- Relations with Indians SUBJECT Southwest, New -- Discovery and exploration Southwest, New -- Description and travel. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125673 Subject New Southwest Genre/Form History Sources Form Electronic book LC no. 2005035687 ISBN 9780826339478 0826339476 082633945X 9780826339454 0826339468 9780826339461 128363547X 9781283635479

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