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Christine Garnier

Craft Research Fund Grant

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2019

The Currency of Handmade: Romanticizing the Indigenous Silversmith of the Southwest

As part of Christine Garnier's larger dissertation project The Currency of Handmade explores the history of Diné (Navajo) silverwork in the last two decades of the nineteenth century through the lens of craft demonstration, commentaries on skill and economy, and the politics of fabricating objects with silver coin.

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Cambridge, MA

Harvard University

$9,547

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Selected works

Edward S. Curtis, Zuni Ornaments, 1903. Photogravure on tissue. Originally published in The North American Indian v. 17 (1907), p. 114. Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Edward S. Curtis Collection, DC, LC-USZ62-102041.

Necklace, Navajo (Diné), 1900-1920. Silver coin. National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution, 25/244. Photo by NMAI Photo Services.

Adam Clark Vroman, “Navajo (Ho-Kah-E-To-He),” 1895. Platinotype. From the Kingsmill Marrs Photograph Collection, 165.320. Massachusetts Historical Society.

Adam Clark Vroman, “Navajo silversmith at work,” 1895. Platinotype. From the Kingsmill Marrs Photograph Collection, 165.313. Massachusetts Historical Society.