Navajo Triple Twist Butterfly Concho Bracelet - John Yazzie (#099)

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Bisbee turquoise cabochons are highly prized by collectors worldwide. The signature look for Bisbee turquoise is a dark lavender blue color with a deep chocolate brown to black matrix.  Some of the most distinctively recognizable Indian jewelry has been set and photographed containing classic Bisbee turquoise cabochons.  As with all turquoise, there is a wide variety of quality from the Bisbee mine where color and matrix patterns can vary a great deal.  

The most productive period of the Bisbee turquoise mine was the 1950's and 1960's.  The mine has been closed since the early 1970's and is currently owned by Phelps Dodge Corp. Bisbee Mine. Arizona, Cochise County. Turquoise is a copper compound and, in the case of the Bisbee mine, is found in the open pit copper mine known as the Lavender Pit.   At this mine, it is typically found as stringers up to a few inches wide; as small nugget-like masses in granite and quartzite; or as minute stringers in massive pyrite.

At Twin Rocks trading post, we possess a burning passion for great turquoise in general and Bisbee turquoise in particular.  So, the next time you are visiting the red rock wonders of the Four Corners, stop in and see what outstanding turquoise is all about.

About the artist:

John Yazzie - Navajo Jeweler
John moved to the Bluff area in 1986. As a young man, he watched friends create jewelry and fell in love with the process. He was making silver jewelry on his own when he went to work for the Navajo Arts and Crafts Cooperative. He was mentored by Howard Begay, Tom Hosteen and Richard Livingston. Howard showed him how to deal with heavier silver, both wire and sheets. He taught him to use proper dimension as a weapon in creating good structure. See full biography | See all items by John Yazzie

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Related legends:

Silversmithing
When and how the Navaho 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? More about this legend

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