Indian Silver: Navajo and Pueblo Jewelers

Description

Author: Bedinger, Margery (1891-1983)

Publisher: University of New Mexico Press

Pub Date: 1974 (second printing)

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Book: Fair.  Binding tight, but text block slightly cocked.  No tears, bends, folds.  Bookstore bookplate on lower corner front pastedown at spine foot.  Spotting (moisture?) to top text block.  Dust Jacket: Fair.  NOT price clipped.  Scuffing, wear to front cover and cover edges.  Scuffing to spine, partially removing title.  Wear to head and foot of spine.  Scuffing to rear cover and edges.

Notes: Not an exhibit catalog.  Bedinger goes into quite a bit of detail about metalworking and how Indian tribes, particularly the Navajo, attained their skills.  Also discusses various tribes preferences for specific styles.  This was probably Bedinger’s magnum opus.  She donated her collection of Indian jewelry to the University of Colorado Museum.  For a biography of Bedinger see http://www.bedinger.org/margery-bedinger-355.html