Salado Polychrome Pottery
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Date
July 16, 2026
Location
Online (Amerind Foundation)
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A free online talk by Kathleen Barvick, Amerind Emerging Scholar-in-Residence and recent PhD from the University of Arizona, exploring how Salado polychrome pottery illuminates the Kayenta diaspora across the American Southwest in the 1300s and 1400s. Barvick examines how a massive drought in the late 1200s triggered migrations from the Four Corners region, and how Kayenta immigrants used distinctive polychrome vessel forms to maintain shared pottery-making practices and negotiate identity across far-flung communities. Hosted by the Amerind Museum as part of its free online lecture series.
Key Speaker: Kate Barvick
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Amerind Foundation
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Founded in 1937 by William Shirley Fulton, the Amerind Foundation is a nonprofit archaeological research center, museum, and art gallery located in Texas Canyon, Arizona. Amerind seeks to foster and promote knowledge and understanding of the Native Peoples of the Americas through research, education, conservation, and community engagement. Its campus serves as a cultural hub for southern Arizona and beyond, housing collections of archaeological and ethnographic materials, hosting advanced research seminars, visiting scholars and artists, and offering exhibitions and public programs that explore the past as a window to the future.
