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Turquoise Jaclas and Silver Beads Necklace - C3710C
Category: Jewelry | Posted by | Sat, Jan 2nd 2016, 3:45pm
Turquoise Jaclas and Silver Beads Necklace, Adobe Gallery carries authentic historic and contemporary Southwest Pueblo Pottery and fine art.
Read More Subject: Coin Silver Navajo Spoon with Stamped Handle
Category: Jewelry | Posted by | Tue, Jun 11th 2013, 4:45pm
Navajo silver spoons were hand forged from Mexican silver coins or American silver coins. Mexican coins were favored because the silver content was...
Read More Subject: Silver Navajo Spoon with Stamped Handle
Category: Jewelry | Posted by | Tue, Jun 11th 2013, 4:38pm
Navajo silver spoons were hand forged from Mexican silver coins or American silver coins. Mexican coins were favored because the silver content was...
Read More Subject: Silver Navajo Spoon with Double Headed Bird on Handle
Category: Jewelry | Posted by | Tue, Jun 11th 2013, 4:30pm
Indian traders were significant influences on Native artists in determining what the artists were to make. It was the traders who knew what they c...
Read More Subject: Silver Navajo Spoon with Feather-design Handle
Category: Jewelry | Posted by | Tue, Jun 11th 2013, 4:14pm
This elaborately decorated silver spoon features a feather-pattern handle and a stamped bowl of elaborate symbols. It dates to circa 1900. Spoons...
Read More Nineteenth Century Coin Silver Pictorial Navajo Spoon - C3393B
Category: Jewelry | Posted by | Tue, Jun 11th 2013, 3:57pm
Navajo-made silver spoons with an Indian head profile at the end of the handle first appeared in Indian trader J. L. Hubbell's 1902 pamphlet. Hubb...
Read More Subject: Nineteenth Century Silver Navajo Spoon
Category: Jewelry | Posted by | Tue, Jun 11th 2013, 3:50pm
The earliest dated silver spoon known to have been made by a Navajo was in 1885 and that was documented by Charles Lummis in his voluminous notes o...
Read More Subject: Kewa (Santo Domingo) Depression-era Necklace
Category: Jewelry | Posted by | Mon, Jun 3rd 2013, 12:21pm
This necklace was made from several "found materials." The beads were made from bone, the black backing probably from automotive battery casing, th...
Read More Subject: Diné Sterling Silver and Turquoise Earrings
Category: Jewelry | Posted by | Thu, May 30th 2013, 11:52am
This pair of earrings appears to be from the last half of the 20th century. Each is stamped with a capital R enclosed by a capital D. I have not ...
Read More Subject: Zuni Three-strand David Tsikewa Fetish Necklace
Category: Jewelry | Posted by | Sat, May 4th 2013, 3:33pm
David Tsikewa brought a previously unseen delicacy to the art of fetish carving. His pieces have a sweet, gentle quality that distinguishes them fr...
Read More Subject: Zuni Pueblo Five-strand Fetish Necklace
Category: Jewelry | Posted by | Fri, May 3rd 2013, 2:35pm
There were several artisans at Zuni Pueblo in the mid-1900s who became famous for their carvings of small bird and animal fetishes from a variety o...
Read More Subject: Pair of Salt and Pepper Containers
Category: Jewelry | Posted by | Tue, Apr 23rd 2013, 4:31pm
This set consists of a sterling silver salt cellar and serving spoon and a pepper shaker, all in the style of Navajo, or quite possibly Hopi silver...
Read More Subject: Selection of Sterling Silver Buttons and Beads
Category: Jewelry | Posted by | Tue, Apr 23rd 2013, 4:06pm
This group is a mixture of shirt buttons, moccasin buttons and silver beads and cones. They are all sterling silver and, except for the shirt butto...
Read More Subject: Cochiti Pueblo Silver and Turquoise Concha Belt
Category: Jewelry | Posted by | Tue, Apr 23rd 2013, 3:22pm
Joe Herrera Quintana was a very private person and, as a result, very little is known about his personal life, but he spent his adult life making j...
Read More Subject: Kewa (Santo Domingo) Depression-era Thunderbird Necklace
Category: Jewelry | Posted by | Thu, Apr 11th 2013, 4:17pm
During the 1930s when the Depression-era was in full swing, New Mexico Pueblo Indians were severely affected. At Santo Domingo Pueblo (now Kewa Pue...
Read More Subject: Zuni Pueblo Knifewing Pin with Multiple Stones
Category: Jewelry | Posted by | Thu, Apr 11th 2013, 4:03pm
This channel-inlay pin consists of turquoise, jet, mother-of-pearl, and Spondylus shell, mounted in silver bezels on silver backing. Silver wire ea...
Read More Subject: Diné (Navajo) Sterling Silver and Turquoise Ring
Category: Jewelry | Posted by | Tue, Mar 19th 2013, 2:41pm
This exquisite ring is comprised of a wide shank that is split into 3 legs at the top of the ring that support a curved silver base on which rests ...
Read More Subject: Diné (Navajo) Handmade Silver Buttons
Category: Jewelry | Posted by | Tue, Mar 19th 2013, 2:32pm
It is documented that the Navajo made and wore silver buttons as early as 1824 and there are illustrations of this as early as 1840. The Navajo ado...
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