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Lois Sherr Durbin
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| Lois Sherr Dubin is the author of North American Indian Jewelry and Adornment from Prehistory to the Present (Harry N. Abrams, 1999). She is currently completing a book on Jesse Monongye, and curating exhibitions of Indian adornment to be held in New York, California and Vermont in 2002. Her latest article for Native Peoples was "Northwest Meets Southwest" (May/June 2001).
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Northwest Meets Southwest
By Lois Sherr Durbin
| Published 03/1/2001
| Tlingit , Tewa , Pueblo , Navajo , Hopi , Haida , Lifeways , Wood Carving , Jewelry/Lapidary , Cultural Items , May/June | Unrated
 As Haida Chief Jim Hart and his wife, Rosemary, waited at the Vancouver airport in British Columbia, Canada, last September to greet their guests-a group of Navajo and Pueblo artisans-they were concerned about the rain.
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Southwestern Jewelry
 The Southwest's arid climate has dictated lifeways for the region's inhabitants for thousands of years. The land, bountiful only with specialized knowledge, once sustained the ancestral Pueblo, Hohokam and Mogollon peoples and remains the source of Pueblo, Navajo, Apache and other tribal cultures today. Life is guided by conviction that one can coexist harmoniously with the supernatural, if things are done in the proper way. In return, Southwestern Indians have ensouled Mother Earth into their prayers, ceremonies and adornment-particularly their stunning and diverse range of jewelry.
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