Navajo Natural Gem Grade Stone Mountain Turquoise Cluster Bracelet - Eugene Livingston (#144)
$1,850.00
Artist: Eugene Livingston
Total inner circumference including opening: 6 1/2"
Opening: 1 1/4"
Stone Mountain turquoise is quickly gaining popularity with Navajo silversmiths and turquoise dealers. The best of these stones has all the correct attributes necessary to be labeled "high-grade." Beauty, rarity and durability abound in this turquoise. Other than cutting, shaping and polishing, the stones in this bracelet are completely natural. After sorting the turquoise for color and cutting them into the correct form, Eugene Livingston took the cabochons and placed them in this old-style cluster bracelet. The outcome reflects back on cuffs created in the early days of the art and is amazing.
Stone Mountain Turquoise
Stone Mountain Mine is located in high deserts of Lyon County, Nevada. The mine was discovered in the late 1970's. The majority of the turquoise recovered from this mine is recovered by pick and shovel.
About the artist:
Eugene Livingston - Navajo Jewelry
Eugene is one of those rare artists who has mastered not just one or two methods, but a myriad of jewelry techniques. As a young man, he trained under other talented silversmiths After many decades of steady work, Eugene is skilled at metal fabrication, casting, making his own silver ingots, and most importantly for his work, the ability to cut stones. In his work below, you will see beautiful cut teardrop and pyramid cut Sleeping Beauty turquoise and coral. His two newest pieces with Carico Lake turquoise demonstrate his mastery of silver stamp work.
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?