turquoise-set

Updated: May 27, 2025

You can imagine him with his silver trappings and harnessings and belts and necklaces and turquoise-set buttons down trouser leg, scouring below these mesas to raid the flocks and steal the wives of the Hopi; and the Hopi wives take revenge by conquering their conqueror, bringing the arts and crafts of the Hopi people silver work, weaving, basketry into the Navajo tribe.

Agnes C. (Agnes Christina) Laut - Through Our Unknown Southwest