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Santa Domingo Pueblo, birthplace of Angie Reano Owen. Angelita "Angie" Reano Owen (born 1946) is a Kewa Pueblo jeweler and lapidary artist. Owen is known for her intricate and modern pieces that are inspired by prehistoric Anasazi and Hohokam inlay jewelry designs. She is recognized for helping to popularize this traditional craft after it had ...
Gail Bird was born in 1949 at Oakland, California. [1] Her father, Tony Bird, was from Santo Domingo Pueblo and her mother, Andrea, was from Laguna Pueblo.Tony worked for the Southern Pacific Railroad and her mother worked for the Bureau of Indian Affairs Inter-Mountain Indian School in Brigham City, Utah.
Heishe or heishi (pronounced "hee shee") are small disc- or tube-shaped beads made of organic shells or ground and polished stones. They come from the Kewa Pueblo people (formerly Santo Domingo Pueblo) of New Mexico, before the use of metals in jewelry by that people. [1]
Kewa Pueblo, formerly known as Santo Domingo, is located on the Rio Grande and is particularly known for heishi necklaces, as well as a style of necklace consisting of tear-shaped, flat "tabs" strung on heishe shell or turquoise beads. The tabs were made from bone inset with a design in the traditional mosaic style, using bits of turquoise, jet ...
Sara Fina Tafoya, Santa Clara Pueblo, (1863–1949) Leonidas Tapia, Ohkay Owingeh Pueblo; Robert Tenorio, Kewa Pueblo (Santo Domingo) (born 1950) Mary Ellen Toya, Jemez Pueblo (1934–1990) Faye Tso, Navajo (1933–2004) Lonnie Vigil, Nambé Pueblo; Nathan Youngblood, Santa Clara Pueblo
Sonia Báez-Hernández (born 1958), Dominican-born Puerto Rican interdisciplinary artist. Ada Balcácer (born 1930), multidisciplinary visual artist, whose artistic production ranges from painted works, textile designs, murals, and printmaking; born in Santo Domingo