He says nickel silver contains no real silver. When shopping for turquoise, there's stabilized and raw turquoise. Stabilized is commonly used in authentic, Indigenous jewelry because it's treated to ...

Jewelry made of blue turquoise, red coral, black jet and silver has long been associated with the Native Americans of the Southwest, where these colors are sacred. Ray Tracey, a Navajo jewelry ...

Upon entering the warmly-lit space housing the Mitchell Museum of the American Indian’s new exhibit, “Stunning Stories in Native American Jewelry,” attention is first drawn to the subtle gleam of a ...

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 ...

The code has been copied to your clipboard. Turquoise, coral, opal and silver are tools in the hands of master Navajo jewelers. The Yazzie family has been making contemporary Navajo jewelry for ...

Winston Mason gets to his shop at 6 a.m. every morning and usually stays until 7 or 8 p.m. However, if he is working on a particular project, he can work up to 15 hours a day. Mason is a Native ...

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 ...