Papers by Diane Dittemore
American Indian Art Magazine, 1990
Jeddito yellow ware, dating as early as ca. 1300, was a departure from the earlier styles of blac... more Jeddito yellow ware, dating as early as ca. 1300, was a departure from the earlier styles of black-on-white, gray, or orange ceramics. The authors provide details concerning the materials and techniques used to produce yellow ware during the next seven centuries. Although it is known that the yellow ware was produced by reduction firing, the influences of clay composition and firing procedures are being investigated and some preliminary results are reported. Information on stylistic studies is also given.
American Indian Art Magazine, 2004
Journal of the Southwest, 2010
is perhaps best known as the man who-with his wife, Ethel, and father, Ernest-saved hundreds of H... more is perhaps best known as the man who-with his wife, Ethel, and father, Ernest-saved hundreds of Hohokam pots and other artifacts originating in the Gila Bend area from destruction by developers or diversion into the hands of private collectors. Less well known is that the Allens' interest in Southwestern desert cultures also extended into collecting from historic pottery-making tribes including the Tohono O'odham of southern Arizona and the Paipai of Baja California (Griset and Ferg, this issue). After Norton passed away, Ethel gave ASM a collection of Tohono O'odham material, including thirty-two whole vessels, several dozen historic sherds, six wooden implements, and two obsidian points. This article focuses on the intact pottery pieces: what kinds are represented, how they integrate with ASM's other O'odham pottery, what we can know about them, and what they might tell us about both the makers and the collectors. the ColleCtion The Tohono O'odham pottery in the Norton Allen Collection represents a spectrum of sizes, forms, and clay and pottery types common to utilitarian O'odham pottery. There is only one black-on-red piece; this decorative type is primarily associated with market wares popularized around the turn of the last century (Fontana et al. 1962:107). The nearabsence of such pieces in the collection is not necessarily surprising, as Diane Dittemore has been the ethnological collections curator at the Arizona State Museum, University of Arizona, Tucson, for thirty-one years. She received an MA in anthropology from the University of Denver, with a focus on Native American material culture and museum studies in 1978.
American Indian art magazine, 2008
American Indian Art Magazine, 2007
American Indian Art Magazine, 1998
Museum Anthropology, 1992
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Papers by Diane Dittemore