Navajo 14k Gold and Turquoise Bear Fetish Bracelet - Robert Taylor (#43)
$2,750.00
Artist: Robert Taylor
Navajo Jewelry
Inner Circumference: 5 3/4"
Opening: 1"
Total: 6 3/4"
Navajo silversmith Robert Taylor wanted to share a bit of safety and stability with this wrist cuff. Bears are a gift of Changing Woman to guard the people, and arrowheads are a gift of Grandfather Horned Toad to protect against great danger. Robert wrapped his golden bear in shrouds of blue sky, to show that higher powers are involved. Robert Taylor is a master silversmith; his designs are graceful and dramatic at the same time and his finish detail is amazing.
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About the artist:
Robert Taylor - Silver & Goldsmith:
"Cluster, channel, leaf, inlay, casting... I've done about everything," Robert Taylor talks about his silver and goldsmithing, "There's a lot of artists that do it." And then he confides the reason he has set himself apart from other craftsmen. "I didn't really get anywhere until I decided to design my own style."
Related legends:
Protection/Practice
Ambush, a shelter formed by two trees or shrubs whose branches intermingle, is a setting repeatedly occurring in myth, giving the explanation for various ritualistic properties-emetic frames, hoops, pokers, prayersticks, wood samples. A hero, hoping to shoot a mountain sheep or other animal he did not recognize as a god, lay behind the 'ambush trees,' but when the animal appeared, was numb until it had passed. The animal deity, revealing himself, taught the hero ceremonial lore? More about this legend