Traditional Jewelry of Yemen

DACOR Bacon House Foundation
Wednesday, February 18
Ms. Marjorie Ransom
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
$25

With the help of American Institute for Yemeni Studies research grants, Ms. Marjorie Ransom spent a year in Yemen in the 2005-7 period studying jewelry and costumes. She wrote a book on her findings, Silver Treasures from the Land of Sheba: Yemeni Regional Jewelry, and plans a second volume on silversmiths.

Ms. Ransom lived twice as a U.S. diplomat in Yemen in a 30-year career that also took her to Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, the United Arab Emirates, Syria and Egypt. She and David Ransom, her late husband, were the first Arabic-speaking tandem couple in the Foreign Service. Over the course of their career, they assembled a collection of more than 2,000 pieces of Middle Eastern silver jewelry.