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2. Gail Bird and Yazzie Johnson - Wikipedia

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   The stones we use are of a wider variety than those usually associated with Indian jewelry. The symbols and narrative on our pieces are expansions of traditional symbols and stories.” [8] Southwest Native American art dealer and book author Martha Hopkins Lanman Struever held the first gallery show for Bird and Johnson in Chicago in 1978 ...

3. Native American jewelry - Wikipedia

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   Encyclopedia of Native American Jewelry: A Guide to History, People, and Terms. Phoenix: Oryx Press, 2000. ISBN 1-57356-128-2. Branson, Oscar T. Indian Jewelry Making. Tucson, AZ: Treasure Chest Publications, 1977. ISBN 0-442-21418-9. Dubin, Lois Sherr. North American Indian Jewelry and Adornment: From Prehistory to the Present. New York: Harry ...

4. Charles Loloma - Wikipedia

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   Charles Sequevya Loloma (January 7, 1921 — June 9, 1991) was a Hopi Native American artist known for his jewelry. He also worked in pottery, painting and ceramics. A highly influential Native American jeweler during the 20th century, [1] Loloma popularized use of gold and gemstones not previously used in Hopi jewelry.

5. Zuni fetishes - Wikipedia

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   Double stranded Zuni fetish necklace with eagle fetish in center, 40 total fetishes made from turquoise, jet, pipestone, serpentine, mother of pearl, spiny oyster shell. The fetishes are strung on fine sinew strung with olive shell and turquoise heshi (beads), with a hand-made sterling silver clasp and cones. The carver of this object is unknown.

6. Bisbee Blue - Wikipedia

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   The company made Bisbee Blue and Villa Grove inlay turquoise jewelry up until the 1980s. In the early 2000s the Durango Silver Company, bought what was thought to be left of the Bob Matthews/Cecil Mickelson Collection of Bisbee turquoise. This collection amounted to approximately 500 lb (230 kg) of rough Bisbee turquoise.

7. Navajo trading posts - Wikipedia

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   The trading post became the vehicle both for the Navajo obtaining the goods they needed and a market for the products they wished to sell. [5] [6] A sutler at Fort Defiance, Arizona began trading with the Navajo in 1851, but Fort Defiance closed in 1868 and the era of privately owned trading posts began. [7]