In the 16th Century, when the Spanish settled in New Mexico, folk carving was religious in nature. Itinerant santeros carved porous native cottonwood into primitive religious images for their ...

he delivers Wood Spirits at a small carving table in his garage. Under a small light and sometimes using magnification, Simonson artfully carves the mythical creatures from cottonwood bark ...

During breaks, his grandfather would take out a piece of paako (cottonwood) root and use his pocketknife to whittle away. He made beautiful carvings that Honyouti would later learn to do himself.

GUEST: This is a, uh, signed, uh, wood carving by Pat Barela ... It's not, like, terribly heavy, so I think it's probably cottonwood. He was born around 1900 and died in 1964, and he was a ...

The 160-acre site is best known, however, for the estimated 8,000 Native American petroglyphs (rock carvings ... feet above the landscape in northeast Cottonwood County and dominates the ...