Turquoise

3 Tufa cast bracelets by Merle House, Navajo.  If you’d like to know more about the tufa cast process refer back earlier in the blog for a discription.  Each bracelet come with the cast in wh...

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Beautiful Zuni pin/pendants.  Each is made with sleeping beauty turquoise needle points and pedite points and can be worn as a pin or pendant.  I think Zuni silversmiths design the best pins. �...

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This is a big buckle that would work for a big man.  Really interesting turquoise and beautiful stamp work.  Check out how clean the rope work is around the cabs.  Made by D. Becenti, Navajo. ...

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This is one of the best buckles we’ve had in the store.  Beautiful green spider web turquoise and great stamp work.  Made by A. Cadman, Navajo.  

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Meteranian coral is getting harder to find but these earrings are beauties.  This pair is marked Geneva J. A., Navajo.  

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We just love Santo Domingo Pueblo jewelry.  The people of Santo Domingo Pueblo were the first jewelry makers of the Southwest.  They just used stones and shells to design their pieces.  As you...

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One of the many pins/broches by wonder Zuni silversmiths.  This butterfly is by Lin Shebola, Zuni.  The inlay on the wings is just perfect.  We have many ladies that love having a beautiful pi...

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This sun face necklace design has been around for many years.  This one is a little different in that we normaly see mother of pearl instead of the spiney osyter shell. Makes for something new i...

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Sterling silver pendant by Jonathan Nez, Navajo.  Jonathan also does matching/coodinating earrings and bracelets. 

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This is one of the most beautiful coral pendants we’ve ever had in the shop.  Just blood red Meteranian coral the best.  I’ve never understood who but we don’t sell a lot of coral.  It�...

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Beautiful Sleeping Beauty turquoise ear rings.  Navajo 

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Spiney osyter shell with overlaid turquoise, mother of pearl and silver from Santo Domino Pueblo.  

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Turquoise and serpentine overlay on shell makes a beautiful pendant. We received several overlay pendants from Santo Domingo Pueblo.  

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Something new from our friends at Touch of Santa Fe.  A great necklace design with the added bear designed by Calvin Begay, Navajo.  We have a couple of these- one with a pueblo scene on the be...

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Beautiful inlaid pendant by Calvin Begay, Navajo.  This one combines the “night sky” and  "monument vally" themes along with a striking kachina in the middle.  The reverse is an all silver...

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Nice necklace set by Susie Lowsayatee, Zuni.  In years past this would have been inlaid with Sleeping Beauty turquoise but since the mine closed last year Zuni silversmiths have been using any t...

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This has to be the best coral we’ve had in years.  A beautiful bracelet with the coral set in brushed silver.  Made by B. Bennett, Navajo. 

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Ribbon turquoise bracelet by M. Spencer, Navajo.  Ribbon turquoise is also called Boulder turquoise.  It shows the matrix that the turquoise formed within.  The sterling silver has a brushed f...

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A nice pin/pendant by Lee Charley, Navajo.  The stamp work on the wings is really good.  Sleeping Beauty turquoise and oxidized sterling silver. 

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A headdress pin/pendant by Staford Adrache, Zuni.  This piece is alive with color- jet, yellow lip mother of pearl, lapus, coral, turquoise, white mother of pearl, and a piece of lab created opa...

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