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Posted by John Hartman on May 11th 2016
A Zuni Jewelry and Silversmithing page - Many years ago, the Zuni people came up to this Earth from the underworld at a place that is identified as either the Grand Canyon or the Mojave Desert. They call the area where they live as the center or middle place.
The Zuni are thought to be direct descendants of the Anasazi. While many anthropologists believe that the Zuni are related to the other pueblo tribes that are scattered throughout the Southwest, they are unique in that their language, to this day, is only spoken by them and bears no resemblance to the languages of any of the other surrounding tribes. Their language is often called Zunian.
According to Zuni cosmology, everything in the universe from natural forces such as lighting, wind, or great droughts, to physical entities, such as rocks, animals, rivers, and human beings has its own spirit. Each of these spirits has the power to observe, think, and respond to humankind. An inanimate object, such as a rock or a lump of dirt, is believed to possess a spirit similar to that of a hibernating bear or a seed that has not yet been planted. The power is simply dormant, for the moment.
Zuni Turquoise Earrings are some of the finest Turquoise Earrings coming out of the Southwest and have been for decades. The Zuni have been known for their fine quality Sterling Silver, Turquoise and other colored gemstone Earrings for many years and they have been collected by many women in the United States as well [...]
Zuni Jewelry - John has just created a new Zuni Jewelry educational presentation page that you may be interested in viewing, you can go here to see it! We have also just purchased a very nice collection of old Zuni Jewelry that came out of the Shonto Trading Post which we will be putting up [...]
Native American Indian Jewelry is unique from any other Silver Jewelrymade elsewhere in the world. The Navajo are world famous for their extensive Silver Stamp work.Their stampwork is done by scribing guide lines in the Silver with a pair of dividers. Once this is done they use stamping tools made our of old files [...]
As Silver has went through the roof in value which is over $36. per ounce today, the cost of materials are at an all time high for the Navajos to purchase. As a result many Navajos are not making Jewelry and this is causing a shortage of Navajo Indian Jewelry in the marketplace.I was [...]
Native Jewelry styles were different in every Native American Indian tribe, but the differences were less marked than with other arts and crafts, because Native jewelry and the materials used for making it (beads, shells, copper and silver, ivory, amber, turquoise and other stones) were major trade items long before the arrival of Europeans in [...]
Native Indian Jewelry has been our specialty before we opened our Silver Jewelry Gallery in Durango, Colorado USA in 1976. We were dealers in Native Indian Jewelry for about 5 years before we built our Trading Post, Silver Jewelry Gallery and Native Indian Jewelry Gallery.We have just finished a great informational page specifically on Native [...]
Native American Jewelry is our specialty at Durango Silver Company! We have been in the Native American Indian Jewelry business for nearly 40 years now and have been very active in collecting and supplying some of the finest quality Native American Jewelry, Native American Indian Jewelry and Native American Silver Jewelry coming out of Southwestern [...]
Durango Silver Company has been known for producing some of the finest quality Native American Silver Jewelry for nearly 40 years. We are also known for having exceptional authentic and natural American Turquoise in the Jewelry that we produce as well as handle.Authentic Native American Silver JewelryWe have been producing Native American Silver Jewelry and [...]
Durango Silver Company has dealt in Native American Indian Jewelry for gererations here in the Southwestern United States. Our pride is handling high quality authentic Native American Indian Jewelry with authentic Turquoise as well as other gemstones.We have just finished a very nice informational page dedicated to Native American Indian Jewelry - it has several [...]