Turquoise/Native American jewelry

[Sheepdog149]

Four Directions beaded deerskin cuff:

Sent from my SM-N960U using Tapatalk

 

[Sheepdog149]

Visited a big gun/knife show in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where I picked up a genuine grizzly claw for a necklace-pendant[emoji1690]

Sent from my SM-N960U using Tapatalk

 

[BobHufford]

My wife picked this up in Arkansas yesterday. You can tell that it is old. The artist (Angela Celicion — Zuni) started in 1942.

 

[Sheepdog149]

Silver cross pendant - hand-stamped by Delbert Gordon, Navajo Artist

Sent from my SM-N960U using Tapatalk

[emoji16]

 

[alanfgag]

My wife picked this up in Arkansas yesterday. You can tell that it is old. The artist (Angela Celicion — Zuni) started in 1942.

View attachment 164831

That's stunning, Bob.

 

[BobHufford]

That's stunning, Bob.

Thanks Alan. Her friend picked up a nice necklace with hummingbirds. Both were very inexpensive. I'll see if I can get a pic of it.

 

[BobHufford]

Here you go. Zuni ... not sure if there was a hallmark, but I've seen similar out there and they claim to be from the 1950s.

 

[alanfgag]

Just a picture of things I'm wearing today...

 

[handymike]

Fantastic buckle!

 

[alanfgag]

Fantastic buckle!

Thank you... it is one of my favorite pieces of Navajo silver - stamped with the horned moon of the Navajo Arts and Crafts Guild.

 

[alanfgag]

I received a recent auction purchase the other day - a large ancient spear point collected from Jefferson County, MO - and took a picture of it with the silver I was wearing that day.

 

[alanfgag]

Ancient beads today... very heavy strand (about a pound). Have to make sure to stand up straight.

 

[Sheepdog149]

Wearing a Native American Four Directions beaded deerskin cuff today[emoji1690]

Sent from my SM-N960U using Tapatalk

 

[Sheepdog149]

Nacozari turquoise, plus a silver cross stamped by Mr. Delbert Gordon, Navajo Silversmith[emoji57][emoji1690]

Sent from my SM-N960U using Tapatalk

 

[Corky Corcovado]

Pilot mountain and Kingman turquoise on silver with handmade conchos. A buddy made made it for me and its meant to look classic.

 

[alanfgag]

A few recently acquired pieces... a silver ring in a stylized kachina form, with four bisbee turquoise stones:

and a few new bead necklaces, from top, a set of nice graduated silver bench beads (Navajo pearls), two long strands of ancient Chumash stone beads from the California Channel Islands, a necklace of ancient Roman empire hand cut amazonite beads strung with excavated Roman glass beads (perhaps two thousand years old) and a necklace of antique long faceted "Russian" cobalt Chief's beads, likely made in Bohemia or Venice a few hundred years ago, purchased by Russians for fur trade with Pacific Northwest native people. My trade bead collection is growing!

 

[Bamaboots]

A few recently acquired pieces... a silver ring in a stylized kachina form, with four bisbee turquoise stones:

View attachment 170571

View attachment 170572

and a few new bead necklaces, from top, a set of nice graduated silver bench beads (Navajo pearls), two long strands of ancient Chumash stone beads from the California Channel Islands, a necklace of ancient Roman empire hand cut amazonite beads strung with excavated Roman glass beads (perhaps two thousand years old) and a necklace of antique long faceted "Russian" cobalt Chief's beads, likely made in Bohemia or Venice a few hundred years ago, purchased by Russians for fur trade with Pacific Northwest native people. My trade bead collection is growing!

View attachment 170573

Really great acquisitions, Alan. That ring and its stones is something. Not what I conjure visually when thinking "pinkie" ring.

Your trade bead collection is a treat to look at and I'm glad I haven't stepped off that ledge. From the looks of them it appears size was important (they all look hefty) as well as quality of construction as there is a lot of symmetry in all of the work. Love the various shapes, textures and colors. Thanks for sharing.

 

[alanfgag]

Really great acquisitions, Alan. That ring and its stones is something. Not what I conjure visually when thinking "pinkie" ring.

Your trade bead collection is a treat to look at and I'm glad I haven't stepped off that ledge. From the looks of them it appears size was important (they all look hefty) as well as quality of construction as there is a lot of symmetry in all of the work. Love the various shapes, textures and colors. Thanks for sharing.

Many thanks Greg. I'm glad you enjoy seeing them.

These are not lightweight strands, but most are very wearable weights. I do have a couple that could benefit from a good back brace. The source of these (almost all of the ones I own, actually) is a Washington based native community that has a remarkable collection of ethnographic necklaces. The prominent antique beads in each are a joy to see and handle and they are strung in very handsome combinations. Some have likely been restrung while others have been in these strands for a very long time.

 

[Desert dog]

A few recently acquired pieces... a silver ring in a stylized kachina form, with four bisbee turquoise stones:

View attachment 170571

View attachment 170572

and a few new bead necklaces, from top, a set of nice graduated silver bench beads (Navajo pearls), two long strands of ancient Chumash stone beads from the California Channel Islands, a necklace of ancient Roman empire hand cut amazonite beads strung with excavated Roman glass beads (perhaps two thousand years old) and a necklace of antique long faceted "Russian" cobalt Chief's beads, likely made in Bohemia or Venice a few hundred years ago, purchased by Russians for fur trade with Pacific Northwest native people. My trade bead collection is growing!

View attachment 170573

Thanks for posting such an interesting piece. I had a friend that used to walk the desert with me, in search of artifacts. It amazed me that he found trade beads in the Mojave Desert. I have found shell beads, but no trade beads. I recently read of fur traders entering the "back door" of Alta California, to trade and steal. Here is a metate and mano that my friend found, he gave it to me before he died. The mano was beneath the metate, which was inverted. Hidden for safe keeping in a stand of mesquite.

Sent from my SM-G920V using Tapatalk

 

[alanfgag]

Fascinating back yard artifacts!