Lovely piece. I really like how each inlay design is surrounded by a fluted cloud. I picked up an inlay chip cuff a few months ago by Gibson Gene…with thunderbirds….fits perfectly.
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Did you post that? I can’t remember. Would love to see it!
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I love it! Gorgeous! And fits right in with the bird thread…
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Wow, that cuff is gorgeous!
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Thank you! Your collection is super. I especially like the Bobby Shack thunderbird bolo tie. Really well made.
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I don’t have the photography props and skills that some of you have, but here are the few bird pieces that I have. I don’t know if the fetish necklace is authentic or not… It looks like it’s handmade, though.
Somewhere, I have a pair of Zuni Thunderbird watch tips that I cannot find now! Been looking all over and hopefully they turn up soon. 
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Thanks for posting! I especially like the peyote bird earrings. Is that amber in them?
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Here’s one I just picked up in Santa Fe while I was there for Market. A ring by Hopi and Navajo artist Curtis Pete—I really admire his work and hope to collect more. I also had the pleasure of meeting him.
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Love the ring, and the style! Looks like first photo was taken in front of La Fonda across from Malouf. Missed it this year. Hope to go next!
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You nailed it! Thanks—I hope you can go next year
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Perfection! A superb example of his biker-playful style. Enjoy!
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As I was taking it off to go through the metal detector at the airport on the way home the TSA guy said “jewelry’s ok—-well, actually, that one’s pretty big” 
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I love it!! I would so wear that. And the Cathedral in the background. I wanna go back!
Ah yes, airport security. I just automatically take off my stuff even if they say it will go through.
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@OrbitOrange
I didn’t see Curtis Pete. Was he in the plaza area or the Free Market?
There were so many jewelers …I was getting dizzy!
I looked him up just now, and I love his style!
This ring is gorgeous…I love big and bold!
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He actually wasn’t part of the main market. He sells through Palace Jewelers at Manitou Galleries in Santa Fe, which is where I bought it. On Thurs and Fri nights they had an artist’s reception, with him and several other artists in attendance, and I met him there. It was lucky I was able to meet up with him, because the ring needed to be resized slightly which he did for me and got it back to me the next day.
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A sterling Raven bracelet cuff by Norman Seaweed of the Kwakwaka’wakw First Nation, Vancouver Island, Canada. I absolutely love this cuff!
Showing the design from left to right – the head of the Raven is visible in the central photo.
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This is a very attractive design, unlike any I’ve ever seen. You photographed it nicely.
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Nice one @chamekke. Someday I’ll add some Northwest Coast jewelry to my collection.
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@hisweetpotato , very pleased you like the photos. It sure can be tricky to photograph highly polished silver surfaces, especially when they curve as this one does. As you all know!
@OrbitOrange , for sure this is a delightful rabbit hole to go down. PNW NA/First Nations silver jewellery is so different to SW NA work, yet I feel an underlying harmony between them, and in my opinion they’re quite complementary, and very satisfying to contemplate.
I’ve got a few such birds—mostly ravens, eagles or hummingbirds—and might share the others sometime.
For example, here’s a small pendant by Travis Henry (Cowichan, Vancouver Island) that I think depicts a hummingbird — it was at a local consignment shop, so again no information beyond the presence of his familiar mark. I’m guessing hummingbird because of the beak, but the cruciform shape is unusual (which is why I bought it), plus there’s a face on its belly! The latter may be a salmon-trouthead, but I feel doubtful about that. The bird is unlikely to be a kingfisher as it doesn’t have a tufted head 
The late Dolly Bond once told me Travis always includes a flower at the end of the beak to emphasize it’s a hummingbird, but I’ve seen exceptions to that in his work. Anyway, it’s a mystery waiting to be solved.
Now, back to the turquoise! 🩵
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