Indian Silver Jewelry of the Southwest: 1868-1930

by Millard J. Holbrook, Lawrence Phillip Frank, Millard J. Holbrook II

Book Overview

This splendidly illustrated book celebrates the historic silver and turquoise jewelry of the Navajo and Pueblo Indians. It presents for the first time over 300 superb objects that are usually hidden from view in museum storerooms and private collections across the United States. Larry Frank discusses the history of this jewelry from 1868, when the Navajos were restored to their homeland, to 1930, when tourist demand and mass production ended the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0887402267
• ISBN13: 9780887402265
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Schiffer Publishing
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 8.5" x 11.0"

Customer Reviews

Indian Jewelry Reference Book

Excellent reference on Southwest Indian Jewelry. A good read before going in search of old or modern day Native American jewelry teasures. Wilford Wilford's Trading Post Gallup, New Mexico

essential for building a graphic knowledge of Indian design.

This book depicts the best from collections of early Native American Pueblo silverwork. The photographs allow the reader to identify key characteristic features of traditional Native American jewelry. The informative verbal descriptions do not insult the reader nor the makers. There are few books that portray the early Southwest jewelry as well as this one.