Author : Terri Cohlene
Publisher : Scholastic
Page : 47 pages
File Size : 37,56 MB
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780439635882
A retelling of a Navajo Indian legend in which Turquoise Boy searches for something that will make the Navajo people's lives easier. Includes a brief history of the Navajo people and their customs.
Author : Kari Chalker
Publisher :
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 16,44 MB
Release : 2004-12-07
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN :
« 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 : Joe Dan Lowry
Publisher : Gibbs Smith
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,12 MB
Release : 2010-10-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781423619802
Turquoise has been mined on six continents and traded by cultures throughout the world's history, including the Europeans, Chinese, Mayan, Aztec, Inca, and Southwest Native Americans. It has been set in silver and gold jewelry, cut and shaped into fetish animals, and even formed to represent gods in many religions. This gemstone is displayed in museums around the world, representing the arts and traditions of prehistoric, historic, and modern societies. Turquoise focuses on the latest information in science and art from the greatest turquoise collections around the globe.
Author : Maxine E. McBrinn
Publisher :
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 48,39 MB
Release : 2015-03-01
Category : Indian decoration and ornament
ISBN : 9780890136041
This book provides an overview of the uses of turquoise in native arts of the Southwest, beginning with the earliest people who mined and processed the stone for use in jewelry, on decorative objects, and as a powerful element in ceremony. In the past, as now, turquoise was valued for its color and beauty but also for its symbolic nature: sky, water, health, protection, abundance. The book traces historical and contemporary jewelry made by Navajo, Zuni, Hopi, and Santo Domingo artisans, and the continuously inventive ways the stone has been worked.
Author : Theda Bassman
Publisher : Kiva Publishing
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 30,18 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9781885772022
An elegant array of museum quality pieces are showcased illustrating the marvelous creativity and artistry of Navajo jewelers. The book features the fine photography of noted photographer Gene Balzer. Detailed descriptions accompany each piece photographed.
Author : Lee Hammons
Publisher :
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 18,96 MB
Release : 1975
Category : Navajo art
ISBN :
Author : Treasure Chest Books
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 11,34 MB
Release : 2000-12-01
Category :
ISBN : 9780918080912
Author : Lee Hammons
Publisher : Primer Publishers
Page : pages
File Size : 34,43 MB
Release : 1988
Category :
ISBN : 9780935810332
Author : Edna Mae Bennett
Publisher :
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 15,9 MB
Release : 1973
Category : Nature
ISBN :
Given in memory of Ethel A. Tsutsui, Ph. D. and Minoru Tsutsui, Ph. D.
Author : Lois Essary Jacka
Publisher : Northland Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,22 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Navajo Indians
ISBN : 9780873586092
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