On Homemade Bread Day, let the delightful scent of fresh-baked dough send you on a nostalgic trip to a simpler past.
Carl Moon's painting does double duty for Homemade Bread Day and National American Indian Heritage Month!
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On Homemade Bread Day, let the delightful scent of fresh-baked dough send you on a nostalgic trip to a simpler past.
Carl Moon's painting does double duty for Homemade Bread Day and National American Indian Heritage Month!
Born in Wilmington, Ohio, Moon became a photographer, painter, and illustrator in the American Southwest. Indians were among his favorite subjects, and he often sought to depict them in their "natural state"—before interactions with whites changed their culture. Today's painting of Tewa women captures the Pueblo bakers in native dress, using a traditional dome-shaped adobe oven, or horno. Ironically, cultural exchange had taken place in the Southwest for centuries. Pueblo Indians adapted the horno from similar ovens used by early Spanish settlers.
Pictured: Carl Moon, 1879–1948, Women Baking Bread, about 1937–1943, oil, 24 x 30 1/8 in., Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Mrs. Florence O.R. Lang.