American Indian Art Magazine Summer 2015 [SOLD]

American Indian Art Magazine Summer 2015

Publisher: Mary G. Hamilton

Articles of Interest

The Jim and Lauris Phillips Center of the Study of Southwestern Jewelry at the Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian 

by Jonathan Batkin

Reviews the twenty-three-year history behind the new center at the Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian, Santa Fe, New Mexico, and provides an overview of the museum’s world-class collection of jewelry and related traditions of the American Southwest

Beyond Beauty: Exploring the Ethnoaesthetics of Navajo Weaving 

by Ann Lane Hedlund

Explores the cultural aesthetics of Navajo weaving through time, demonstrating that weaving is as important for its internal processes as for its external appearance, beyond its attractive motifs, design layouts, and color schemes.

In the Golden Decade of American Indian Basket Collecting: Catherine Marshall Gardiner and Her Baskets

by Joyce Herold

Discusses the collecting methods used by Gardiner during the early 1900s to acquire close to 500 specimens of Native American basketry now in the collection of the Lauren Rogers Museum of Art, Laurel, Mississippi.

“A Certain Prestige”: The Heyday of Horse Gear among Navajos and Apaches

by Tobi Lopez Taylor

Examines various kinds of horse gear and other horse-related objects made and used by Navajos and Apaches in the late 1800s and early 1900s, including saddles, saddlebags, saddle blankets, woven cinches, rawhide horse boots, silver headstalls, ring bits, quirts and spurs.