Navajo and Pueblo Jewelry Design: 1870-1945

Featuring more than 400 color images, this visual history of Southwestern Native jewelry design after 1945 details how Native jewelers made their products into an American success story.

There are few success stories more vivid than the rapid rise of Indigenous-made jewelry design in the American Southwest. The source of this continuing success lies in the brilliant patterns and motifs of Navajo/Diné and Pueblo metalsmiths and lapidaries. Their post-1945 work took them from skilled craftsp...