Turquoise, Water, Sky

Name: Turquoise, Water, Sky
Brand: Museum of New Mexico Press (US)
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Meaning and Beauty in Southwest Native Arts

Written by Maxine E McBrinn and Ross E Altshuler

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This book provides an overview of the uses of turquoise in native arts of the Southwest, beginning with the earliest people who mined and processed the stone for use in jewellery, on decorative objects, and as a powerful element in ceremony. In the past, as now, turquoise was valued for its color and beauty but also for its symbolic nature: sky, water, health, protection, abundance. The book traces historical and contemporary jewellery made by Navajo, Zuni, Hopi, and Santo Domingo artisans, and the continuously inventive ways the stone has been worked.

ISBN-13: 9780890136041
Publisher: Museum of New Mexico Press
Imprint: Museum of New Mexico Press (US)
Publication date: 15 March 2015
Format: Paperback
Pages: 172
Dimensions: 280 x 230 mm
Illustrations: 142 colour illus
Language: English