Fine Indian Jewelry of the Southwest: The Millicent Rogers Museum Collection

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New Mexico art patron Millicent Rogers (1902-1953) was once a passionate collector who assembled a stellar number of Navajo and Zuni silver and turquoise, Hopi silverwork, and Pueblo stone and shell jewelry right through the late 1940s and early 1950s when fine late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century work could still be found. Her collection provided the root for what has turn into one in all The us’s most essential repositories for the aesthetic achievements of Native American artists oft he Southwest: The Millicent Rogers Museum. This lavishly illustrated book presents the museum’s jewelry collection through that of its founding collector and brings to life the Taos she found out within the late 1940s, showcasing the authentic, classic-era jewelry that she collected when Fred Harvey and others were popularizing Indian-made tourist pieces.

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