Collection Information
Size: 1.4 linear ft.
Summary: Newspaper clippings, 1940s-1990; 7 press photographs; and slides taken by Wood during her travels to Central Asia and Europe. The clippings are largely from local Ojai and Ventura, Calif. newspapers; some are articles written by Wood that contain excerpts from her journals. Slides include ca. 225 taken in India, mostly of crafts, and 2 binders. One binder, ca. 1961-1977, contains 27 slides of Afghanistan, Nepal,, Germany and other places (although is titled India/Japan/Israel); the second binder is identified as Tanjore, Benares, Orissa and contains 32 slides taken in Indian during Wood's 1972 trip to document the disappearing folk art of India, one of the key sources for her ceramic imagery and overall sensibility.
