title: The Navajo and Pueblo Silversmiths (The Civilization of the American Indian Series)
author: John Adair
description: <DIV>&quot;With the care of a meticulous and thorough scholar, the author has told the story of his several years&rsquo; investigation of jewelry making among the Southwestern Indians. So richly decorative are the plates he uses for his numerous illustrations showing the jewelry itself, that the conscientious narrative is surrounded by an atmosphere of genuinely exciting visual experience.&quot;&ndash;<I>Dallas Morning News.</I></DIV><br /><br /><DIV>&quot;The wealth of detail, the exact documentation, and the excellent tables, charts and plates make The Navajo and Pueblo Silversmiths a book of exceptional worth.&quot;&ndash;<I>American Sociological Review.</I></DIV><br /><br /><DIV>&quot;The analysis of the economic aspects of the craft is painstaking and well carried out. Reading between the lines one must inevitable envisage the long weary hours spent in traveling to the isolated hogans and trading posts in quest of these data. This is no armchair compilation, but one that carries with it the tang of juniper wood burning in winter hogans, of the wet earth after a sturdy &rsquo;he&rsquo; rain and the odor of coffee and mutton cooking over open fires. It is a labor of love plus a lot of sweat.&quot;&ndash;<I>New York Herald Tribune.</I></DIV><br /><br /><DIV>For the first time in anthropological history, Mr. Adair presents the development of the Pueblo silversmiths and includes a roster of native Indian smiths which will delight the hearts of all collectors of silver. &ndash;<I>New </I><I>York Herald Tribune. </I></DIV>
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  # Navajo Silversmiths
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Washington Matthews
  
  
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      Navajo Silversmiths
  
  
  Second Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the
  
  
  Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1880-1881,
  
  
  Government Printing Office, Washington, 1883, pages 167-178
  
  
  
  
      
  
  Produced by Verity White, PM for Bureau of American
  
  
  Ethnology and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at
  
  
  http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images
  
  
  generously made available by the Bibliotheque nationale
  
  
  de France (BnF/Gallica) at http://gallica.bnf.fr)
  
  
  
  
  
  SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION—BUREAU OF ETHNOLOGY.
  
  
  NAVAJO SILVERSMITHS.
  
  
  BY
  
  
  Dr. WASHINGTON MATTHEWS, U.S.A.
  
  
  
  
  
  ILLUSTRATIONS.
  
  
  PLATE XVI. Objects in silver 172
  
  
  XVII. Navajo workshop 175
  
  
  XVIII. Crucible, and Sandstone molds for
  
  
  shaping silver objects 175
  
  
  XIX. Objects in silver 177
  
  
  XX. Navajo Indian with silver o