Fred Harvey Jewelry: 1900-1955

The success of today’s American Indian silversmith follows a pathway blazed by the silver Indian jewelry makers that came before—those who brought the raw silver, channeled it, worked it, and made it profitable. In a large sense, the Fred Harvey name built the structure upon which many of today's Southwestern Indian silver and art traditions survive. This book's comprehensive study utilizes several private collections and hundreds of specimens, the best of which were painstakingly measured,...