K'ehgosone.
(Del Mar, CA: Ettan Press, 1975). Quarto. 16pp., + (13)ff. One of forty-five copies containing eight original color etchings, each numbered and signed by the artist. The title, in the Apache language, means "because of that which is beautiful," and the text brings together poems and verbal expressions from several different Native American languages, translated by academic and activist Dr. Inés Talamantez, who was Mescalero/Lipan Apache and Chicana. Dr. Talamantez's research focused on the relationships between Indigenous cultures, languages, and religious practices, and she pioneered the scholarship and teaching of Native American religious traditions in higher education. Cornelia von Mengershausen, after training at the Munich Academy of Art, came to the United States and studied with Georgia O'Keeffe, who advised her to limit her palette to desert colors. Influenced by the environment, and by the oral traditions and myths of Native American peoples, Mengershausen's etchings are intricate renderings of elements of Southwestern cliff landscape and dwellings, gently toned with aquatint and colored on the plate with subtle shades of ocher and blue-gray. They are printed on thick Twinrocker paper and unbound. The book is accompanied by an LP record with "Children's Songs of the American Indian," a composition based on Pawnee and Zuni ceremonies, and "Flexagon," both by modern Swiss composer Thüring Bräm. Housed together in a drop-back box of full white buckskin, crossed with a band of hand-woven wool tapestry, and a handmade paper-covered slipcase. Small abrasion from contact with slipcase, else fine. Item #32101
Price: $3,500.00