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"In Search of Nampeyo"

Celebrating seven years of publication!

In Search of Nampeyo:
The Early Years 1875-1892

by Steve Elmore

Winner of the Independent Book Publishers Association's Benjamin Franklin Award
and the USA Book News Best Book Award

"In Search of Nampeyo" is the definitive art history book of Nampeyo's early life and career, with examples from the Thomas Keam Hopi Pottery Collection at Harvard University’s Peabody Museum. Foreword by Hopi master potter and Nampeyo's great-great-granddaughter, Rachel Sahmie. Published by Spirit Bird Press, Santa Fe, New Mexico, January 2015. 220 pages, 8 ½” x 11”, over 100 photographs. Re-released October 2016.

Limited signed hardcover edition SOLD OUT.

ISBN 978-0-9862854-2-4

N -- $50



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