Table of Contents

A Testament of Diversity: Southwest Indian Jewellery at the Millicent Rogers Museum; In Pursuit of the Extraordinary: Millicent Rogers the Collector; The Origins of Indian Jewellery in the Southwest; The Beginning of Silverwork; Classic Period: A Period of Technological Change and Refinement; Transitional Period: The Commercialisation of Southwest Indian Jewellery and the Development of Recognisable Tribal Styles; Innovation Period: Pushing Boundaries and the Emphasis on the Individual Artist; Millicent Rogers: Artist and Designer; Glossary; Index.

About the Author

Shelby Tisdale is director of Museum of Indian Arts and Culture/Laboratory of Anthropology in Santa Fe.

Reviews

This handsome volume includes many of the items in the museum's collection....The book's chapters are organized as a chronology of Southwestern jewelry, based on silversmiths' acquisition of new tools and technologies. Welcome information concerning Millicent Rogers is primarily in the first and last chapters but is also found throughout the book. This is neither a detailed piece-by-piece catalog of Roger's collection nor a complete biography, but rather an overview of her collection as it fits into a larger pattern of Southwestern Native silver and turquoise jewelry.

This handsome volume includes many of the items in the museum's collection....The book's chapters are organized as a chronology of Southwestern jewelry, based on silversmiths' acquisition of new tools and technologies. Welcome information concerning Millicent Rogers is primarily in the first and last chapters but is also found throughout the book. This is neither a detailed piece-by-piece catalog of Roger's collection nor a complete biography, but rather an overview of her collection as it fits into a larger pattern of Southwestern Native silver and turquoise jewelry.