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Author : Bille Hougart
Publisher : Tbr International
ISBN 13 : 9780971120228
Total Pages : 459 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Little Book of Marks on Southwestern Silver written by Bille Hougart and published by Tbr International. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 459 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bille Hougart
Publisher : Tbr International
ISBN 13 : 9780971120211
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Little Book of Mexican Silver Trade and Hallmarks written by Bille Hougart and published by Tbr International. This book was released on 2006 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 2006 new and revised 2nd edition of the bestselling reference guide to identifying Mexican silver: Loaded with images and graphics of over 1500 marks of silver makers, designers, manufacturers and silver houses in Taxco and throughout Mexico. Eagle numbers from 1 through eagle 219. The book includes all the great ones, including William Spratling, Hector Aguilar, Los Castillo, Antonio Pineda, Sigi, Maricela, Salvador, Valentn Vidaurreta, Victoria, Fred Davis, Artemio Navarrete, Emma Melendez, Bernice Goodspeed, Maciel, Matl, Tane, Hubert Harmon, Chato, Margot and many, many others. The book is cross-referenced and indexed for quick and handy searches. The new edition reveals identities of many mystery marks and includes examples of marks not previously published. Special sections describing fake marks are included for prominent designers.
Author : Dorothy T. Rainwater
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780764315879
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)
Download or read book Encyclopedia of American Silver Manufacturers written by Dorothy T. Rainwater and published by . This book was released on 2002-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This reference for collectors, appraisers, and historians contains an alphabetized listing of more than 1400 American silver manufacturers. Each entry provides a brief history of a particular manufacturer, and many are accompanied by drawings and photographs of the trademarks used. An alphabetical listing of trade names aids in the identification o
Author : Bille Hougart
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780971120242
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)
Download or read book Native American and Southwestern Silver Hallmarks written by Bille Hougart and published by . This book was released on 2014-06-01 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Adair
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806122151
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Navajo and Pueblo Silversmiths written by John Adair and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1944 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Probably 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 Indians. To prepare his book, Mr. Adair made an exhaustive examination of the principal museum collections of Navajo and Pueblo silver work, both early and modem, in Santa Fe, Colorado Springs, Chicago, New York, and Philadelphia. He visited trading posts in the Indian country and examined and photographed silver on the pawn racks and in important private collections. He lived for a time among the Navajo, watched them make their jewelry, and actually learned to work silver himself in the hogan of one of the leading artisans, Tom Burnsides. Many of the photographs he made at the time are used as illustrations in this book. He spent months among the Indians in New Mexico and Arizona and became personally acquainted with many of their silversmiths. Later, as field worker for the Indian Arts and Crafts Board, he studied the economics of Navajo and Pueblo silversmithing; and still later he became manager of the Navajo Arts and Crafts Guild, a tribal enterprise. The Navajo and Pueblo Silversmiths provides a full history of the craft and the actual names and localities of the pioneer craftsmen who introduced the art of the silversmith to their people. Despite its present high stage of development, with its many subtle and often exquisite designs, the art of working silver is not an ancient one among the Navajo and Pueblo Indians. There are men still living today who remember the very first silversmiths. Mr. Adair gives full details, as he observed them, of the methods and techniques of manufacture over a primitive forge with homemade tools. He tells both of the fine pieces made for trade among the Indians themselves and of the newer, cheaper types of jewelry produced for sale to tourists. He discusses standards and qualities of Indian silver and describes the work of the Indian schools in helping preserve traditional design in the fine silver of today. His excellent photographs of some of the most notable pieces, old and new, provide examples for evaluation. This volume, therefore, will serve the layman, the ethnologist, and the dealer alike as a guide to proper values in Indian silver jewelry, and will provide the basis for authoritative knowledge and appreciation of a highly skilled creative art.
Author : Kari Chalker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)
Download or read book Totems to Turquoise written by Kari Chalker and published by . This book was released on 2004-12-07 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: « Totems to Turquoise: Native North American Jewelry Arts of the Northwest and Southwest celebrates the timeless beauty and power of the jewelry of the American Southwest and Northwest Coast, two regions with distinguished traditions of visual creation whose contemporary artists continue to work in the best of those traditions while expanding upon them to make jewelry an art form expressive of individual vision and creativity." "Lavishly illustrated, both with historical photographs and a wealth of new photography commissioned for this publication, Totems to Turquoise: Native North American Jewelry Arts of the Northwest and Southwest will be an important resource for students, scholars, designers, and indeed for anyone who loves beautiful and well-made objects. 185 illustrations, including 150 plates in full color. »--Résumé de l'éditeur.
Author : Ellen O'Connell Whittet
Publisher : Melville House
ISBN 13 : 1612198325
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)
Download or read book What You Become in Flight written by Ellen O'Connell Whittet and published by Melville House. This book was released on 2020-04-14 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Poignant and exquisite"--The Los Angeles Review of Books "An inspiring and powerful book"--Booklist "A genuinely absorbing read"--Kirkus "Revelatory, honest, and wondrous."--Chanel Miller, author of Know My Name A lyrical and meditative memoir on the damage we inflict in the pursuit of perfection, the pain of losing our dreams, and the power of letting go of both. With a promising career in classical ballet ahead of her, Ellen O'Connell Whittet was devastated when a misstep in rehearsal caused a career-ending injury. Ballet was the love of her life. She lived for her moments under the glare of the stage-lights--gliding through the air, pretending however fleetingly to effortlessly defy gravity. Yet with a debilitating injury forcing her to reconsider her future, she also began to reconsider what she had taken for granted in her past. Beneath every perfect arabesque was a foot, disfigured by pointe shoes, stuffed--taped and bleeding--into a pink, silk slipper. Behind her ballerina's body was a young girl starving herself into a fragile collection of limbs. Within her love of ballet was a hatred of herself for struggling to achieve the perfection it demanded of her. In this raw and redemptive debut memoir, Ellen O'Connell Whittet explores the silent suffering of the ballerina--and finds it emblematic of the violence that women quietly shoulder every day. For O'Connell Whittet, letting go of one meant confronting the other--only then was it possible to truly take flight.
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Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816504671
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)
Download or read book Yaqui Myths and Legends written by and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 1959 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sixty-one tales narrated by Yaquis reflect this people's sense of the sacred and material value of their territory.
Author : David C. Edmonds
Publisher : University of Louisiana
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)
Download or read book Yankee Autumn in Acadiana written by David C. Edmonds and published by University of Louisiana. This book was released on 2005 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The complete narrative of the expedition.
Author : Penny C. Morrill
Publisher : Schiffer Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)
Download or read book Mexican Silver written by Penny C. Morrill and published by Schiffer Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The powerful story of the silver renaissance in Mexico from the 1920s to the present. Over 400 color photos showcase jewelry, tableware and art works in silver. Extensive research sheds new light on the life and art of William Spratling, Margot van Voorhies, Fred Davis, and Hubert Harmon, and artisans who worked for them, making this book the definitive study of Mexican silver jewelry and decorative objects. The newly updated price guide is helpful in today's market.
