More than 125 vivid color photographs display Indian-made wrought silver, turquoise, shell and coral jewelry brought together from the American Southwest's bright deserts, red canyon and timeless pueblos. The authors explore the diversity of this hand-crafted jewelry from historic collections as well as those available today on reservations and in shops and galleries. They explain the heritage conveyed by these distinctive products of Navajo, Zuni, Hopi, and Rio Grande Pueblo artisans.

Indian Jewelry of the American Southwest (Schiffer Book for Collectors with Value Guide)

Arts & Photography

Turnbaugh, William A.

Turnbaugh, Sarah Peabody

Photography & Video

Schiffer_Publishing

Over 750 color photographs illustrate this long-awaited guide for collectors of vintage Native American basketry. Decades of basketry research inform the text, guiding basket lovers to a better understanding of these woven treasures. Clear images and concise descriptions, presented in an extended gallery showcasing hundreds of baskets, delineate specific tribal styles within Native North America's nine basketry regions: Southwest, Great Basin, California, Plateau, Northwest Coast, Arctic and Subarctic, Plains, Southeast, and Northeast. Unique to this book is an in-depth comparison of imported baskets being passed off as American Indian work. The cultural and historical background as well as the influence of the "Indian basket craze" are also examined. Valuable guidance on buying, selling, and caring for baskets includes a frank discussion of legal issues impacting basket collectors. Rounding out this essential reference are comprehensive regional bibliographies, Internet resource listings, and a directory of American museums exhibiting Native American baskets.

American Indian Baskets: Building and Caring for a Collection

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Antiques & Collectibles

Schiffer

With hundreds of vivid and detailed color photographs and an easy narrative style enlivened by historical vignettes and images, the authors bring overdue appreciation to a centuries-old Native American basketmaking tradition in the Northeast. Explore the full range of vintage Indian woodsplint and sweetgrass basketry in the Northeastern U.S. and Canada, from practical "work" baskets made for domestic use to whimsical "fancy" wares that appealed to Victorian tourists. Basket collectors may compare four regional styles: Southern New England and Long Island, Northern New England and Canadian Maritimes, Upper New York State, and the Great Lakes. Learn of the craft's key role in supporting many Eastern Algonquian and Iroquoian peoples through generations of turmoil and change. Discover how today's creative young artisans are building upon their legacy. The book's "Resources" section guides readers to relevant websites and publications as well as northeastern Indian basketry collections in more than 30 public museums.

Indian Basketry of the Northeastern Woodlands

History & Criticism

Schiffer Craft

Indian Jewelry of the American Southwest (Schiffer Book for Collectors)

Decorative Arts & Design

This volume considers the anthropological collection of a small 19th-century museum from the perspective of the collecting preferences of four early collectors, and their "19th-century curio cabinets" of archaeological and ethnological objects. High-quality photographs and illustrations highlight this early museum collection, which is world-wide in scope, and include numerous important ethnological and archaeological objects from the Northeast, Great Plains and Western United States, Paleolithic Europe, Philippines and Pacific region, and Ur III cuneiform economic tablet from Sumer.

The Nineteenth-Century American Collector: A Rhode Island Perspective

Reference

Catalogs & Directories

Museum of Primitive Art and Culture

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