Fine Indian Jewelry of the Southwest: The Millicent Rogers Museum Collection

The Millicent Rogers Museum Collection

Author: Shelby J. Tisdale

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New Mexico art patron Millicent Rogers (1902-1953) was a passionate collector who assembled a stellar collection of Navajo and Zuni silver and turquoise, Hopi silverwork, and Pueblo stone and shell jewellery during the late 1940s and early 1950s when fine late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century work could still be found. Her collection provided the foundation for what has become one of America's most important repositories for the aesthetic achievements of Native American artists oft he Southwest: The Millicent Rogers Museum.

Critic Reviews

This handsome volume includes many of the items in the museum's collection....The book's chapters are organized as a chronology of Southwestern jewelry, based on silversmiths' acquisition of new tools and technologies. Welcome information concerning Millicent Rogers is primarily in the first and last chapters but is also found throughout the book. This is neither a detailed piece-by-piece catalog of Roger's collection nor a complete biography, but rather an overview of her collection as it fits into a larger pattern of Southwestern Native silver and turquoise jewelry.

About the Author

Shelby J. Tisdale is director of the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture/Laboratory of Anthropology, in Santa Fe, and author of Fine Indian Jewelry of the Southwest: The Millicent Rogers Museum Collection (Museum of New Mexico Press).