Indigenous artisans in New Mexico are known for their turquoise ... as Zuni jewelry maker Chester Mahooty (pictured in a 2008 photo), sell their wares every day outside the Indian Pueblo Cultural ...

Turquoise is one of December ... southwest and into contemporary jewelry. Some designers look for clean turquoise without any visible matrix (remnants of the rock it was mined from, which ...

For millennia turquoise has ... trading posts in the Pueblo Zuni over the course of three generations of their family, amassed a collection of Navajo and Zuni jewelry. That spanned about a century ...

Navajo and Pueblo artists sat among the ... leather goods, jewelry. Browsing a table with what looks like the familiar turquoise jewelry associated with the Southwest, I overhear a nearby shopper ...

Finely crafted silver and turquoise is the hallmark of the ... “Thunderbirds: Jewelry of the Santa Domingo Pueblo” is as much about the Depression-era resourcefulness and adaptability of ...

“Like rose quartz and rock crystal,” Siegelson says, “turquoise is one of those materials that is not inherently valuable, like a diamond, so it can appear in any level of jewelry. The ...

Because it’s formed by a chemical reaction when water rich in minerals like copper and aluminum leak through rocks, the presence of matrix in turquoise ... Atelier 5 high-jewelry collection ...

The Lowrys’ system considers color as the most important factor in turquoise, followed by the presence or the absence of matrix, the term for remnants of host rock often visible in the stone.

On Monday, KVUE stopped by Turquoise Trading Post ... selection of Native American jewelry in Texas, according to owner Jim Williamson. It also carries pueblo pottery, Zuni fetish carvings ...