PORTAL TO DENI SEYMOUR & MARK HARLAN ON THE WEB

Expedition, ethnographic, and research documentation, historical documentaries, family histories, travel logs, and custom work. Artistic and documentary photography including award-winning images and contemporary work shown in galleries.

This portion of this web site provides a summary of current research on the Spanish colonial period, on early expeditions into the region, and on the native inhabitants of the American Southwest from the terminal prehistoric period forward, during a time commonly referred to as the protohistoric. Included are discussions of the Sobaipuri (Upper Pima or O'odham), the Apache, and non-Apache mobile groups, such as the Jano and Jocome. The Salinas Pueblos and Galisteo Basin Pueblos are also discussed with reference to mobile groups, and the Jumano and Teya. These easternmost pueblos fall along the edge of the Southwest as does the area in southeastern New Mexico where additional studies are taking place.

Other material culture studies focus on the methodological implications of typologies and seek alternative approaches to understanding material culture variation.