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Glittering World Navajo Jewelry of the Yazzie Family

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ISBN-10: 1588344770

ISBN-13: 9781588344779

Edition: 2014

Authors: Lois Sherr Dubin, Manuelito Wheeler, Joe Tanner, Gene. Waddell

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Glittering World tells the remarkable story of Navajo jewelry--from its ancient origins to the present--through the work of the gifted Yazzie family of Arizona. Jewelry has long been an important form of artistic expression for Native peoples in the Southwest; its diversity of design reflects a long history of migrations, trade, and cultural exchange. Exceptional jewelry makers who have been active for nearly eight decades, the Yazzies are strongly rooted in and inspired by these traditions and values. Their works emphasize reciprocity, harmony, balance, and respect for family.As the companion volume to the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian in New York exhibit of the same…    
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Book details

List price: $58.00
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press
Publication date: 11/18/2014
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 252
Size: 9.69" wide x 9.76" long x 1.18" tall
Weight: 3.454
Language: English

Lois Sherr Dubin lives in New York City and southern Vermont.

Gene Waddell is an architectural historian, archivist, and museum administrator. He is the author of more than 30 articles and monographs, including Indians of the South Carolina Lowcountry, Charleston in 1883, and Collecting, Preserving, Exhibiting. He served as the director of the South Carolina Historical Society, in archival and curatorial positions for the Getty Center for the History of Art and Humanities, and joined the staff of the Canadian Centre for Architecture to serve as the director of library collections.