Join us for a book signing of Southwestern Indian Rings!
When: Thursday, August 16, 5 pm.
Where: Collected Works Bookstore, 202 Galisteo Street, Santa Fe.
We’d love to see you there!
We will be taking in the festivities that lead up to the Heard Museum Guild Indian Fair and Market on March 3-4.
Prior to that, I will be signing copies of Southwestern Indian Rings during the Scottsdale Art Walk on March 1. I am dividing my time between two locations:
Old Territorial Indian Arts at 7077 E Main St, from 5 to 7 p.m.
Waddell Trading Company at 7144 East Main Street, from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.
These two shops are among my favorite destinations in Arizona, and they represent two aspects of the fine Indian art to be found in Scottsdale:
Old Territorial is the oldest running Indian arts shop in the Valley of the Sun. Alston and Deborah Neal offer vintage and contemporary Indian arts that reflect the sturdiness of traditional Native design.
Waddell Trading Company contains dazzling works in rich materials by some of the very best contemporary artists working today. You will see pieces that offer a virtuoso twist on the traditional or avant-garde items that foretell the directions Native style will take.
Southwestern Indian Rings
by Paula A. Baxter
Photography by Barry Katzen
Visit Amazon for its discounted price
With a fascinating variety of American Indian rings from the southwestern United States shown in more than 360 color photos, Southwestern Indian Rings
provides a design history of these rings, beginning with pre-contact artifacts and continuing through to contemporary artistic innovations.
The text surveys key developments in Native American ring design; materials and methods of construction; definitions for historical and vintage rings; master innovators; and the transition from craft to wearable art since 1980.
Shortly after the Civil War, Native American artisans began making silver rings set with turquoise, coral, jet, mother-of-pearl, and colored shell, adding lapis, malachite, onyx, and petrified wood over the decades. More recently, artisans began utilizing gold and such non-traditional settings as opals and diamonds, among others.
Works by Navajo and Pueblo artists are featured, although Apache, Northern Cheyenne, and Sonoran Desert Native jewelers are also included. A guide to valuation issues and resources is offered for collectors.
978-0-7643-3875-5
hardcover $34.99 (but Amazon is giving a discount)
8 1/2 x 11
160 pages
361 color photos
