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Author: Tricia Loscher
Creator: Martha Struever
Publisher: Heard Museum
Category: Book

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Sales Rank: 1297533

Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 144
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.4
Dimensions (in): 10.1 x 8.3 x 0.5

ISBN: 0934351791
Dewey Decimal Number: 745
EAN: 9780934351799

Publication Date: August 10, 2007
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Outstanding new book from the Heard December 27, 2007
A real treasure! Beautifully done and very detailed! The seed pots are tiny works of art and certainly deserve to be written about! It is a new medium for an old art form and they are outstanding!

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This Book Shines Brightly September 11, 2007
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The core of this book is the outstanding collection of silver seed pots (spherical vessels with a rounded bottom and very small top opening) made by Native American artists, accumulated by Norman Sandfield with passion and enthusiasm. After decades of amassing these unique pieces of creativity, he donated the entire collection to the Heard Museum, the premier museum for Native American art.

This book is a testament to the collector's infatuation for this particular art form and to his supreme generosity. The reader will learn how Mr. Sandfield's zeal for collecting Native American silver pots became ignited, and how he was assisted by Martha Struever, a prominent gallery owner and patron of the artists, who wrote the preface. Each of the over two hundred pots in the collection is beautifully photographed, with pertinent information about the silver work and maker. Details about how the containers were created, the artists' motivation and inspiration, and their hallmarks, are included.

The author, Tricia Loscher, curator and program director of the Heard Museum North, here presents a significant text on the subject of silver work by Native Americans. A helpful glossary and bibliography are included.

Individuals interested in Native American art, contemporary crafts, and collecting will find this book a pleasure to read and keep as a reference.

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