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Turquoise and the Indian / by Edna Mae Bennett.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Schimmel Collection Schimmel 8240
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bennett, Edna Mae, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Indians of North America--Southwest, New.
- Indians of North America.
- Indians of North America--Clothing.
- Turquoise--Southwest, New.
- Turquoise.
- Turquoise jewelry--Southwest, New.
- Turquoise jewelry.
- New Southwest.
- Physical Description:
- 152 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations (black and white, colour), maps ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- Revised edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : Swallow Press, [1970]
- Summary:
- Treats the significance of turquoise in the culture of the Indigenous peoples of the Southwestern United States in rituals, folk myths and craftsmanship.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Technically speaking
- The first reports of turquoise by the Spanish
- The Indian miners
- The Indian lapidaries
- Contemporary jewelry
- Pawn
- Jewelry today
- The many meanings of turquoise.
- Notes:
- "Sage books."
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 142-149) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Schimmel 8240: Presented to the Penn Libraries in 2024 by Caroline F. Schimmel. With dust jacket.
- ISBN:
- 0804002983
- 9780804002981
- OCLC:
- 2764637
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