Explore the life and art of legendary Navajo silversmith Fred Peshlakai,
and see how his masterful art began and evolved. Beginning with the
history of the Navajo people, it follows world events impacting the
American Southwest and the Navajo culture precipitating in the
development of their unique expressions of art rendered with silver and
stone. Nineteenth-century evolution of the art form is reviewed, shining
a particular light on certain ambiguities regarding important
interrelationships between its most famous figures. Fred Peshlakai
hailed from one of the most recognized artistic bloodlines of his noble
people. This book is the beginning catalogue of his beautiful silver
artwork with hundreds of images and their individual technical and
artistic expressions discussed. No longer mythical, Fred Peshlakai is
shown to be one of the most, if not the most, influential Navajo artisan
to impact the creation of Navajo Silver Art and his art the world-class
art treasures that they truly are.