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Documents the story of the cross-cultural friendship between wealthy New Englander Maud Melville and Hopi potter Ethel Muchvo, who shared years of personal triumphs and sorrows as well as a traditional "Hopi summer" before tragic changes were inflicted on Pueblo culture, in an account based on diaries, letters, and personal photos. Original.
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In 1927, Maud Melville, an educated and affluent New Englander, spent nine months traveling across the U.S. by automobile with her professor husband, Carey, and their three children. Lasting friendships were formed with some of the people they met along the way. Drawing from diaries, letters, and photographs, Tucson-based biographer and historian Davis presents an account of the Melville's journey, and the friendship Maud developed with Ethel Muchvo, a Hopi potter she met in Arizona and with whom she continued to corresponded for a decade. Illustrated throughout with b&w photographs taken by Carey Melville, the text offers a glimpse into the lives of Hopi people at a time when few visitors went to the mesas. No subject index. Annotation ©2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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