New Mexico art patron Millicent Rogers (1902-1953) was a passionate collector who assembled a stellar collection of Navajo and Zuni silver and turquoise, Hopi silverwork, and Pueblo stone and shell jewellery during the late 1940s and early 1950s when fine late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century work could still be found. Her collection provided the foundation for what has become one of America's most important repositories for the aesthetic achievements of Native American artists of the Southwest: The Millicent Rogers Museum.
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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.
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27 of 28 people found the following review helpful:
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A recommended addition to personal, academic, and community library Native American Studies reference collections,
By Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Fine Indian Jewelry of the Southwest: The Millicent Rogers Museum Collection (Hardcover)
Painstakingly compiled and with an expert, knowledgeable commentary by Shelby J. Tisdale, Fine Indian Jewelry Of The Southwest: The Millicent Rogers Museum Collection offers an impressively informative history and survey of the southwestern Native American jewelry that is represented in the collection of the Millicent Rogers Museum as the result of art patron and passionate collector Millicent Rogers who assembled a spectacular collection of Navajo and Zuni silver and turquoise, Hopi silverwork, and Pueblo stone and shell jewelry during the late 1940s and early 1950s. Of special interest is the chapter devoted to "The Origins of Indian Jewelry in the Southwest". Profusely illustrated and a very strongly recommended addition to personal, academic, and community library Native American Studies reference collections, Fine Indian Jewelry Of The Southwest is enhanced for scholars and non-specialist general readers alike with the inclusion of a glossary, references, and an index.
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This review is from: Fine Indian Jewelry of the Southwest: The Millicent Rogers Museum Collection (Hardcover)
If you like Indian Jewelry but can't get to the museum in Taos this is a great first book on the subject. If you do go to the Millicent Rodgers Museum, this is the book to help you savor that grand experience for many years to come. And it's a great reference work if you are contemplating investing in Zuni or Navajo jewelry.Wilford's Trading Post Gallup, New Mexico
15 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
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must-have book for Southwest Indian Jewelry coll;ectors,
By Kachina collector "MAC" (Santa Fe) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Fine Indian Jewelry of the Southwest: The Millicent Rogers Museum Collection (Hardcover)
This is a glorious book of Southwest Indian Jewelry with interesting info on Millicent Rogers, who herself was a work of art.A must-have for collectors of Southwest Indian Jewelry.
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tab necklace, tobacco flasks, channel inlay, turquoise settings, cast bracelets, concha belts, squash blossom necklace, spiny oyster, stamp work, pump drill, lapidary work, multiple stones, museum purchase, jewelry collection, stamped designs, turquoise jewelry, turquoise stones Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Millicent Rogers, Paul Peralta-Ramos, New Mexico, Santo Domingo, Rio Grande, Southwest Indian, New York, World War, United States, Arturo Peralta-Ramos, Yazzie Johnson, Charles James, Claremont Manor, Fred Harvey Company, Gail Bird, Leekya Deyuse, San Juan, Count Salm, San Ildefonso, Atsidi Chon, Bosque Redondo, Charles Loloma, Ian Fleming, John Adair, Gilbert Adrian New!
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tab necklace, tobacco flasks, channel inlay, turquoise settings, cast bracelets, concha belts, squash blossom necklace, spiny oyster, stamp work, pump drill, lapidary work, multiple stones, museum purchase, jewelry collection, stamped designs, turquoise jewelry, turquoise stones Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Millicent Rogers, Paul Peralta-Ramos, New Mexico, Santo Domingo, Rio Grande, Southwest Indian, New York, World War, United States, Arturo Peralta-Ramos, Yazzie Johnson, Charles James, Claremont Manor, Fred Harvey Company, Gail Bird, Leekya Deyuse, San Juan, Count Salm, San Ildefonso, Atsidi Chon, Bosque Redondo, Charles Loloma, Ian Fleming, John Adair, Gilbert Adrian New!
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- Native America (Color & Learn) by Kathy Rogers on 10 pages
- Taos Pueblo: Painted Stories by Jonathan Warm Day on page 37, and page 186
- Southwest Indian Silver from the Doneghy Collection by Louise Lincoln in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Plains Indians (People of the world) by Anne Smith on page 56, and page 59
- Kenneth Jay Lane: Faking It by Kenneth Jay Lane in Back Matter
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