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 ...

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 ...

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 National Museum of the American Indian’s George Gustav Heye Center in New York celebrates its 20th anniversary with the opening of “Glittering World: Navajo Jewelry of the Yazzie Family” Thursday, ...