Oo-oónah art; Taos Indian for "child," by the Taos Pueblo Indian School's 7th-8th grade pupils of '67-'68. Edited by Constantine Aiello.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Waters, Frank, 1902-1995.

Aiello, Constantine, editor.

Taos Pueblo Indian School.

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

American Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Taos art.

Children's art--New Mexico--Taos.

Children's art.

Children's writings.

New Mexico--Taos.

Penn Provenance:

Aiello, Constantine (autograph) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Dasburg, Andrew, 1887-1979 (autograph) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Physical Description:

12 unnumbered pages, 39 pages, 5 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 23 x 29 cm

Edition:

[Special Collector's Edition].

Place of Publication:

[Taos, New Mexico] : [Published by Taos Pueblo Governor's Office, Box 258], [1970]

Notes:

Introduction by Frank Waters.

"All proceeds from this book will go into the Taos Pueblo Indian Governor's Office Fund to be used for the health and welfare of the tribe's children."

White spine lettered in black with red, blue, black and white pictorial front covers. Illustrated endpapers.

""Fifty-seven paintings and pencil drawings by twenty-one Indian children thirteen and fourteen years old, in the seventh and eighth grades of the day school of Taos Pueblo, New Mexico ... Little wonder that they evoked instant response when they were first shown in the Stables Gallery of the Taos Art Association during the week of March 19, 1968."--Cf. Introduction.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy is "Special Collector's Edition copy no. 85 presented to University of Pennsylvania in honor of Bernard G. Sega-- Feb 1972."

Culture Class Collection copy has autographs of editor, artists and poets. Some autographs have been written on different paper and pasted on preliminary pages [2] & [3].

Culture Class Collection copy has statement by Frank Waters pasted on verso of front free endpaper and copy of drawing 'Spring Orchard' by Andrew Dasburg, signed by the artist pasted on p. [1].

OCLC:

496816