On the Trail of Spider Woman: Petroglyphs, Pictographs, and Myths of the Southwest

by Carol Patterson-Rudolph

Weaves together the stories of tiny elusive Spider Woman as she is mythologized by the Keresan Pueblo, Hopi and Navajo people. The myths in On the Trail of Spider Woman are those that were left in the petroglyphs and pictographs of the San Juan Basin, southeastern Utah, and northwestern New Mexico.

132 pages, Paperback

First published August 20, 1997

Reviews

[Crystal]

More academic but some good cultural context and stories. Hard for me to follow/focus at times, interesting take tho and concepts

[Theresa]

a theoretical legend spider woman and her affects on society