Millicent Rogers Museum of Northern New Mexico
Thank Millicent Rogers, the late Standard Oil heiress, for popularizing the turquoise and silver Native American jewelry that has become such a Southwestern fashion standard. You can also thank her for this collection of 7,000 pieces of Hispanic, Native American, and Anglo artworks in this collection, which ranges from Pueblo jewelry to Apache baskets, Hopi katsina dolls to more recent decorative tinwork. One focus is carved Catholic images called santos ("saints"), with many examples from master carvers of the 18th and 19th centuries. Rogers' own jewelry collection includes the famous "Tab Necklace," made of three pounds of Zuni-worked turquoise, that she paid $5,000 for in the 1940s. Expect to spend about 1 hr. at this museum.
Thank Millicent Rogers, the late Standard Oil heiress, for popularizing the turquoise and silver Native American jewelry that has become such a Southwestern fashion standard. You can also thank her for this collection of 7,000 pieces of Hispanic, Native American, and Anglo artworks in this collection, which ranges from Pueblo jewelry to Apache baskets, Hopi katsina dolls to more recent decorative tinwork. One focus is carved Catholic images called santos ("saints"), with many examples from master carvers of the 18th and 19th centuries. Rogers' own jewelry collection includes the famous "Tab Necklace," made of three pounds of Zuni-worked turquoise, that she paid $5,000 for in the 1940s. Expect to spend about 1 hr. at this museum.
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