Zuni: A Village of Silversmiths [SOLD]

ZUNI a Village of Silversmiths

By James Ostler, Marian Rodee, and Milford Nahohai

Published by Zuni A:Shiwi Publishing

First edition, softcover, new copy, published in 1996, 143 pages, profusely illustrated in color

From the Acknowledgements:

With a tradition of Zuni jewelry making extending back more than a thousand years, and with more than a thousand currently practicing silversmiths, the immediate problem in writing a book about the rich history and the very creative present of Zuni is what do you leave in and what do you leave out; more precisely, who do you leave in and who do you leave out.

Abbreviated Contents

Part I. A Conversation between Zuni Seniors and Milford Nahohai

Part II. The Inside and the Outside by Jim Ostler

Part III. Historic and Contemporary Jewelry by Marian Rodee

     (Rodee covers, in over 50 pages, the artists who make each style of Zuni jewelry, such as Nugget, Casting, Petitpoint, etc.)

Part IV. A Conversation Between Charles Hustito and Jim Ostler

Part V. A Conversation between Milford Nahohai and Jim Ostler