| Details | | Publication Date: | 1993-10-01 |
| Size | | Length: | 215 pages | | Height: | 11.5 in | | Width: | 9.3 in | | Thickness: | 1.2 in | | Weight: | 51.2 oz |
Publisher's Note
Concentrating on turquoise jewelry, the one art form in the Southwest to have survived largely intact through the centuries, Jeffrey Jay Foxx takes the reader on a photographic journey which affords important insights into Native American cultures. The images in The Turquoise Trail depict native American life, daily rituals, pow-wows, rodeos, portraits, and the landscape and ruins of the Southwest, as well as a diverse array of fine turquoise inlaid, mosaic, and beaded pieces made over the last 50 years. Carol Karasik's text crosses time and space to trace the trading routes of the sacred turquoise stone back to ancient Mexican civilizations, drawing parallels between various cultures and offering a pathway to understanding the interrelations among pre-Columbian peoples.
More than 140 stunning color photographs by Jeffrey Jay Foxx show turquoise jewelry in the context in which it is worn and used today. Images include Native American ritual, daily life, powwows, rodeos, portraits, landscape, and ruins of the Southwest, as well as a diverse array of fine turquoise, inlaid, mosaic, and beaded jewelry made by members of indigenous nations and tribes over the last fifty years. Carol Karasik's text, a narrative journey that crosses time and space, describes the landscape of the ancient turquoise trade routes and affirms the inextinguishable vitality of ancient traditions. By tracing the routes of the sacred stone between ancient Mexican civilizations and what is now the American Southwest, she reveals a pathway to the understanding of the interrelations among pre-Columbian peoples. She draws fascinating parallels in myth, religion, and ceremony between the Pueblos and the Mesoamericans, pointing out the many shared graphic images found on jewelry, pots, and other artifacts throughout the Americas.
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