Sterling Silver Broach w/ Navajo Rug Design - Robert Taylor (#29)
$525.00
Artist: Robert Taylor
Navajo Jewelry
Sterling Silver Broach w/ Navajo Rug Design
1 9/16" x 2 1/4"
Robert Taylor has crafted an unusual brooch based on the old-time peace medals handed out by the United States government in the mid to late 1800's. These symbols of accord and commitment were given to Navajo tribal leaders after signing the latest and most comprehensive peace treaty. New and clever ideas don't occur very often in the jewelry trade, but Robert has latched onto one here. The Navajo people may have been bamboozled out of their most prized real estate, but they are having the last laugh. With the discovery of gas and oil under what was once considered worthless land, they have found a bit of peace in the income allowed by an inconspicuous buried treasure.
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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:
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?
Weaving
After the medicine woman told the people about the prayersticks she told them that there was a place in the underworld where two rivers crossed. It was called ni tqin'kae tsosi, fine fiber cotton (Indian hemp). There were two persons who brought the seed of that plant, they were spiders. They said that the people were to use the plant instead of skins for their clothing. So this seed was planted in the earth? More about this legend