Navajo and Pueblo Silversmiths provides a full history of the craft and the actual names and localities of the pioneer craftsmen who introduced the art of the silversmith to their people. Despite its present high stage of development, with its many subtle and often exquisite designs, the art of working silver is not an ancient one among the Navajo and Pueblo Indians. There are men still living today who remember the very first silversmiths. This volume will serve the layman, the ethnologist, and the dealer alike as a guide to proper values in Indian silver jewelry. It also gives an account of the social and economic organization of farmer-craftsman communities, which are unique and confined almost entirely to the hogans and pueblos of the Southwest.
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