Navajo silver; a brief history of Navajo silversmithing.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Woodward, Arthur, 1898-1986.

Standardized Title:

Brief history of Navajo silversmithing

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Navajo silverwork.

Physical Description:

xii, 103 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Flagstaff [Ariz.] : Northland Press, [©1971]

Summary:

Presents a comprehensive view of the four major influences on Navajo sivler design, showing how the early Navajo silversmiths adapted art forms of European settlers and Indians in the eastern United States as well as those of the Spanish and Mexican colonists in the Southwest.

Notes:

Originally published in 1938 as Museum of Northern Arizona Bulletin no. 14 under title: A brief history of Navajo silversmithing.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 91-100).

Local Notes:

Gift of the Storey Family, in memory of Dr. Bayard T. and Frances E. Storey.

Other Format:

Online version: Woodward, Arthur, 1898-1986. Brief history of Navajo silversmithing. Navajo silver.

ISBN:

0873580885

9780873580885

OCLC:

257892