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Belt buckles are iconic pieces of jewelry in the American West. For Southwest Native Americans, early belt buckles were purely...

Merging the worlds of fashion, art, and history, our Navajo Rug Purses truly are pieces of wearable art. The process...

The basic form of the concha (shell) was derived from hair ornaments of the Southern Plains Indians, called hair plates....

One of Navajo (Diné) silversmiths’ greatest innovations was their use of stamp work to decorate silver. Navajo silversmiths have mastered...

Overlay describes a piece of silver with a design cut out of it – a negative design – laid over...

Heishi (from the Santo Domingo word meaning “shell”) traditionally referred to necklace shell beads. Today, however, it describes tiny, handmade...

The Whirling Log symbol is not associated with the Swastika and pre-dates WWII. Long before its appearance in WWII, the Whirling...

The Thunderbird is a legendary creature within many Native American cultures. It is considered to be an enormous bird with...

With probable Paleolithic origins, the inverted crescent form (called Naja by the Navajo) has represented the Phoenician goddess of fertility,...