vii, 232 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 30 cm
Notes
Outgrowth of a conference entitled "Turquoise, Henry Christy and European Collections," organized by the Dept. of Africa, Oceania and the Americas and held at the British Museum in Dec. 2009, in conjunction with the exhibition Moctezuma : Aztec ruler. Cf. introd
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents
Mastering materials : comparative properties of raw materials on turquoise mosaics and their significance for mosaic technology / Caroline Cartwright, Rebecca Stacey and Colin McEwan -- Mineralogy and manufacturing technique in a group of archaeological greenstone mosaics from classic period Mesoamerican sites / Laura Filloy Nadal -- Cracking the code of pre-Columbian turquoise trade networks and procurement strategies / Sharon Hull and Mostafa Fayek -- Conservation of a turquoise mosaic disk from Tula, Mexico / Patricia Meehan and Valerie Magar -- An integrated approach to understanding the selection and fate of turquoise on Mexican mosaics in the British Museum / Rebecca Stacey ... [et al.] -- An alternative approach to the prehispanic turquoise trade / Alyson M. Thibodeau ... [et al.] -- The turquoise disk from Offering 99 at the Templo Mayor in Tenochtitlan / Adrián Velázquez Castro ... [et al.] -- Turquoise in the Aztec imperial world / Frances Berdan -- Mexican turquoise mosaics in Vienna / Christian Feest -- The symbolism of turquoise in ancient Mesoamerica / Karl A. Taube -- Teoxihuitl : turquoise in Aztec thought and poetry / Patrick Johansson K. -- Turquoise and squash blossom : a Pueblo dialogue of the long run / Peter M. Whiteley -- The exotica of the Settala Museum and other northern Italian collections / Antonio Aimi -- A new glance at Bologna's sixteenth- and seventeenth-century museums and their Mexican items / Laura Laurencich-Minelli -- Progress and evolution and changes to the practice of collecting in the mid-nineteenth century / Michael Thompson -- In pursuit of the unity of the human race : Henry Christy and Mexico / Jill Cook -- Henry Christy, A.W. Franks and the British Museum's turquoise mosaics / Marjorie Caygill -- On the eternal and the elusive : an appreciation of the work of Johnson and Bird / Henrietta Lidchi -- Shared images : continuity and innovation in turquoise jewellery / Gail Bird and Yazzie Johnson -- We wear our wealth / Shane Hendren -- Eighteenth-century economy, twentieth-century merchandising : the market for turquoise in the American Southwest, 1900-1940 / Cheri Falkenstien-Doyle -- The turquoise mines of the Cerrillo Hills Mining District, gemstone materials, and their usage : ancient and modern / Douglas Magnus