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Located on a hill above Santa Fe, the Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian holds a permanent exhibit on Southwestern turquoise jewelry. On its lower level, a replica of a historic trading ...

Browsing a table with what looks like the familiar turquoise jewelry associated with the Southwest, I overhear a nearby shopper ask, “How much for these?” He holds up a pair of rectangular ...

Chunky silver settings, turquoise stones, look-at-me feathers and a slew of other Southwest-inspired elements are making their way onto the jewelry scene in a big way for the upcoming season.

It remains a central emblem of Southwestern Jewelry. One of the repositories of prehistoric and contemporary turquoise is the Arizona State Museum on the campus of the University of Arizona.

“There is no more important defining gem stone in Southwest jewelry and part of the exhibition’s purpose is to expose people to turquoise that is not dyed or stabilized, but is the authentic ...

The collection “celebrates ranch culture, the natural environment of the Southwest and the spirit ... specifically criticizing the turquoise jewelry designs that have, for hundreds of years ...

The gallery that houses the permanent exhibit of Southwestern jewelry is named for art dealer ... Pueblo has made and supplied beads, and also turquoise, jet, and other materials for centuries ...

If Rogers popularized the craft of Southwestern tribes ... a design and jewelry gallery in New York. Loloma expanded the vernacular beyond turquoise and silver, introducing materials like lapis ...

It was used in mosaics, jewelry, ceremonial shields and ... were “not only different from what we detected in Southwestern examples of turquoise,” she said, but they also “matched very ...

where he was on one of his twice-yearly visits to the American Southwest ... end Native American jewelry and educates his customers about the stone. “To obtain rare turquoise, it takes time ...