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Table of contents: Alan Preston : between tides -- Introduction : navigation aid -- 1. Appealing gypsy mystique -- 2. Souvenirs of paradise -- 3. Bone stone shell -- 4. Pakeha politics, colonialism's symbols -- Conclusion : between tides -- A conversation with Alan Preston
Summary: A survey of over thirty years' work by one of New Zealand's leading contemporary jewellers, from his earliest work in the 1970s to his achievements as part of the bone stone shell movement and his most recent jewellery using fibre and found materials