Navajo Sterling Silver Cleansing Rain Cuff Bracelet - Allison Lee (#189)
$880.00
Artist: Allison Lee
Total inner circumference including opening: 6 1/4"
Opening: 1"
Lately Allison Lee has been using simple sterling silver and elaborate stamping to create bracelets that are wearable every day, for the rest of your life. Using a simple but elegant hatching pattern to represent cleansing rain and highly polished metal, Allison has forged a superb cuff. Once you put it on, you will not want to take it off.
About the artist:
Allison Lee - Navajo Silversmith:
Speaking of the silver and gold jewelry he hand crafts, Allison Lee's captivating voice is sincere when he says, "One time my uncle told me that everything we build comes from the earth, like the silver that comes from the earth, or the turquoise that comes from the earth. That is a lot of energy. You put it together and you put your heart and mind into a piece. Then sometimes a certain piece of jewelry- I believe- it is made for a certain person. I usually have a ring, or something, that stays with me for about two or three years, until the right person comes along. And then that person buys that piece. I believe that every piece of jewelry that I make is made for somebody out there- it's made for somebody special. Whoever might be having problems, or something like that. In essence, that energy helps that person get help, by wearing pieces that we make. That is the way I look at it.
Related legends:
Silversmith Work
When and how the Navajo acquired the art of working metals is unknown but there are reasons for supposing that it was introduced among them, or at least more developed and improved upon by them, since the time they have occupied their present country?