Hopi Silver: The History and Hallmarks of Hopi Silversmithing

Margaret Nickelson Wright's Hopi Silver is the standard reference on Hopi silversmithing, prized above all for its catalogue of artists' hallmarks, the personal stamps smiths use to mark their work. Wright traces the craft from its later nineteenth-century beginnings through the distinctive overlay style that the Hopi developed into a fine art equal to any in the world, drawing on the collections and expertise of the Museum of Northern Arizona where she long worked.

This is the fifth edition of 1998, expanded with over one hundred new silversmiths and featuring hallmark drawings by Barton Wright, the noted authority on Hopi material culture. The cover pairs a historic portrait of a Hopi craftsman with a silver overlay medallion, and the contents include a chronological listing of recorded smiths and an index of hallmarks by type, the working apparatus that makes the book indispensable to collectors and curators. A clean, well-preserved copy of a true field reference worth documenting.