Jewelry making has long been an important part of the lives of Southwest Native peoples. During the last 50 years, Native jewelers in the Southwest—Navajos in particular—have created a contemporary ...
Native American artisans create molds from cuttlebone and tufa stone to cast metal jewelry. Anthony Lovato works with tufa stone molds to create jewelry at his studio in Santo Domingo Pueblo, ...
Jesse Monongya is a master Navajo/Hopi jeweler Monongya is best known for his night-sky designs inlaid into a bear shape, which symbolizes strength and power, as well as other forms. His bracelets, ...
SANTA FE — For Samantha Platero, founder of Dineh Jewelry, a career working with silver might have seemed inevitable. Her name literally means “silversmith,” her grandparents were silversmiths, and so ...
The Holland Center is honored to host the 4th Annual Navajo Rug & Jewelry Show, presented in partnership with the Adopt-A-Native-Elder Program, on February 21–22, 2026 (Saturday–Sunday, 10 a.m.–5 p.m.
Many jewelry designers and makers are inspired by the Native American squash blossom design. A squash blossom necklace made by a silversmith known as Slender Maker of Silver between 1885 and 1890 for ...
When Mike Schur, Ed Helms and I pitched our show “Rutherford Falls,” I wore my “power pieces” to every meeting. I sported Native American jewelry that I knew would make me enter each room with my chin ...
CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Glittering World presents the story of Navajo jewelry through the lens of the gifted Yazzie family of Gallup, New Mexico—one of the most ...
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