Hanging With Turque

HANGING WITH TURQUE is the story of a turquoise bead from New Mexico who becomes separated from her turquoise brother and sister beads when the necklace accidentally breaks apart on a New York City street. Alone and fearful, Turque is eventually found by a young girl who creates another necklace featuring Turque and a variety of beads from around the world, Turque soon realizes that you do not always have to be with others just like yourself. Living together with her new, multicultural friends she was going to have a fascinating life.

Lois Sherr Dubin: An author, curator and frequent lecturer, Lois Sherr Dubin wrote ’The History of Beads: From 30,000 B.C. to the Present’ (Abrams, 1997; it has been reissued as ’The History of Beads: From 100,000 B.C. to the Present’ (Abrams, 2009). Ms. Dubin has also authored ’North American Indian Jewelry and Adornment’ (Abrams, 1999); ’Jesse Monongya: Opal Bears and Lapis Skies’ (Hudson Hills Press, 2002); ’Arctic Transformations: The Jewelry of Denise and Samuel Wallace’ (Easton Studio Press, 2005); ’ADORNMENT: The Art of Barbara Natoli Witt’ (Hudson Hills Press, 2011) and was a contributing editor for ’Totems to Turquoise: Native North American Jewelry Arts of the Northwest and Southwest’, co published by the American Museum of Natural History and Harry N. Abrams, Inc. She currently sits on the Board of the National Museum of the American Indian, George Gustav Heye Center, Smithsonian Institution.