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The new look in Indian Jewelry Arizona Highways Magazine - Arizona Highways Magazine April 1979 - 48 pages Full issue

Master list item #: 24

File location is in the New Mexico file Cabinet

Gold, Silver and a touch of Forever by Pam Hait
Dreams and visions
Beads, boots and Jaguars by Charles Loloma

Indian has used turquoise, shell, bone, etc., since time immemorial, and in the 1860s he began creating the traditional silver jewelry with which we are all familiar. But the new work being done today has a quality all its own. It's not like the old stuff, it is better, with the development of new tools, the availability of new materials such as gold and diamonds, and the soul bursting desire to make a statement of their own an new look Indian jewelry emerged.


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