The breathtaking, large and very detailed photographs is this coffee table style book make you feel like you are almost holding the jewelry. The sumptuous pieces are captivating. I’ve spent hours paging back and forth through the beautiful work, drooling over the buckles.
9 3/4″ x 9 3/4″
Hardbound with dust jacket
272 pages
Full color
There are many outstanding Yazzie jewelers. Because the subtitle uses the phrase “Yazzie Family” I expected more Yazzie artists to be included. However, this book mainly focuses on the life and work of brothers Lee and Raymond Yazzie. There is a good deal of text about the family, design, techniques and materials.
It devotes a few pages to the Yazzie Sisters who make a variety of necklaces and bracelets and sterling silver Navajo Pearl necklaces.
This 1970s Lee Yazzie buckle is part of my personal collection.
2014
National Museum of the American Indian
Smithsonian Institution
Glittering World
Navajo Jewelry of the Yazzie Family
by Lois Sherr Dubin
Paula
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