The Navajo Arts and Crafts Guild members produced some wonderful pins and brooches. I have several and keep them pinned on my wooly jackets and vests. Here is one with an unusual and beautiful abstract rendering of a horse in motion.
I guess I still have one or two up my sleeve... though it has been posted before I think. It is a dark sand... the color you'll get from a building supply place rather than the ocean sand I grew up with outside NYC.
Here is a sampling from my collection of cuffs from the Navajo Arts and Crafts Guild. The NACG, founded in 1941 under the auspices of the US government Indian Arts and Crafts Board with support from Navajo tribal authority the NACG helped support a return to traditional values in Navajo...
Thank you. It’s marked with the horned sun of the Navajo Arts and Crafts Guild… posted some additional photos of it further back. Very elegant form and beautifully crafted as well. Some of the NACG pieces are special.
Thanks... I think one of these will be good for me. But it is an interesting example of American ingenuity from a time when some raw materials were likely difficult to source (kinda like now)... and when "plastic" had some positive marketing power - before it acquired the negative baggage that...
Yes... follow the link to see more photos and read more details. The hat is constructed with cloth hat techniques from an interesting mixture of materials. In my experience, examples of this short lived WWII era experiment do not come up for sale often. Also, in my searching (when I was...
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