Southwest Indian jewelry at the Millicent Rogers Museum
By: by Shelby J. Tisdale ; foreword by Arturo Peralta-Ramos II.
Contributors: Millicent Rogers Museum.
Publisher: Museum of New Mexico Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Santa Fe
Language: eng
Number of pages: 215
ISBN-13: 9780890134825
Subjects: Rogers, Millicent, d. 1953 -- Ethnological collections -- Catalogs; Millicent Rogers Museum -- Catalogs; Indians of North America -- Jewelery -- Southwest, New -- Catalogs; Indian silverwork -- Southwest, New -- Catalogs; Indians of North America -- Jewelry -- Southwest, New -- Catalogs; Indian silverwork -- Southwest, New -- Catalogs; Turquoise jewelry -- Southwest, New -- Catalogs
Genres: Catalogs.
Description: New Mexico art patron, Millicent Rogers (1902-1953) was a passionate collector who assembled a stellar collection of Navajo and Zuni silver and turquoise, Hopi silverwork, and Pueblo stone and shell jewellery during the late 1940s and early 1950s when fine late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century work could still be found. Her collection provided the foundation for what has become one of America's most important repositories for the aesthetic achievements of Native American artists of the Southwest: The Millicent Rogers Museum.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A testament to diversity : southwest Indian jewelry at the Millicent Rogers Museum; title: In pursuit of the extraordinary : Millicent Rogers the collector; title: The origins of Indian jewelry in the southwest; title: The beginning of silverwork; title: Classic period (1880-1900) : a period of refinement and technological change; title: Transitional period (1900-1950) : the commercialization of southwest Indian jewelry and the development of a recognizable tribal style; title: Innovation period (1950-present) : pushing boundaries and the emphasis on the individual artist; title: Millicent Rogers : artists and designer.