The Navajo and Pueblo Silversmiths by John Adair - 9780806122151

The Navajo and Pueblo SilversmithsAuthor(s): John Adair\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Oklahoma Press, United States\nImprint: University of Oklahoma Press\nISBN-13: 9780806122151, 978-0806122151\nSynopsis\nProbably no Native American handicrafts are more widely admired than Navajo weaving and Navajo and Pueblo silver work. This book, which is now in its third large printing, contains the most important and complete account of Indian jewelry fashioned by the Navajo, the Zuni, the Hopi, and other Pueblo peoples. \""\""With the care of a meticulous and thorough scholar, the author has told the story of his several years' investigation of jewelry making among the Southwestern Indians,\""\"" says The Dallas Times Herald. \""\""So richly decorative are the plates he uses ... that the conscientious narrative is surrounded by an atmosphere of genuinely exciting visual experience.\""\"" John Adair is a trained ethnologist who has lived and worked among these [url] prepare his book, Mr..