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2. Native American jewelry - Wikipedia

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   Wanesia Spry Misquadace (Fond du Lac Ojibwe), jeweler and birch bark biter, 2011 [1]Native American jewelry refers to items of personal adornment, whether for personal use, sale or as art; examples of which include necklaces, earrings, bracelets, rings and pins, as well as ketohs, wampum, and labrets, made by one of the Indigenous peoples of the United States.

3. Effie Calavaza - Wikipedia

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   Effie Calavaza was born in 1927 in Zuni, New Mexico as Effie Lankeseon, [4] [5] where she lived her entire life. [6] She married Juan Calavaza (1910–1970), also a jewelry artist, who taught her the art.

4. Della Casa Appa - Wikipedia

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   Della Casa Appa (1889-1963) was one of the first significant Zuni women jewelers. The Zuni are Native American Pueblo peoples native to the Zuni River valley. Della Casa Appa began making jewelry as her husband's assistant and then sold her work at the trading post of Charles Garrett Wallace.

5. Jewellery - Wikipedia

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   Native American jewellery is the personal adornment, often in the forms of necklaces, earrings, bracelets, rings, pins, brooches, labrets, and more, made by the Indigenous peoples of the United States. Native American jewellery reflects the cultural diversity and history of its makers.

6. Denise Wallace - Wikipedia

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   Wallace, of Alutiiq descent (also called Sugpiaq Eskimo) was born in 1957 in Seattle. [1] After high school she spent time in Alaska where her grandmother lived. [2] She studied lapidary work and silversmithing in Seattle, and at age 19 began to study at Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA) in Santa Fe. [3]

7. Heidi BigKnife - Wikipedia

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   BigKnife works in jewelry design, often gathering found items for inspiration. Her work attempts preserve her Native American culture, but at the same time recycle images of the past into new forms and shapes via materials and techniques. [3] She is also a skilled metalsmith and combines political and social messages into her pieces. [2]