My gosh you’ve got a great collection of Hopi earrings and rings @Patina! I especially like the Trinidad Lucas ring. I’m going through a Hopi jewelry phase in my collecting and have been going through my collection. I have an overlay cuff by Trinidad purchased in the late 1980’s. While looking at available pieces on line, I found a ring by Trinidad on Horsekeeping very similar to yours:
Not a “new addition” but here’s my cuff by Trinidad:
@Bmpdvm Thanks! That TL ring you posted is very, very similar to mine. I like it, too. But, oh, your cuff - it’s fabulous. I’m interpreting that as a medicine bundle on the bear - such a wonderful detail.
Oh dear. Now y’all have made me realize that I definitely don’t have enough Hopi jewelry. Thanks.
I have a ring made by Dawn Lucas, and I was going to ask if anyone knew if she was related to Trinidad. But I remembered my Hopi book has some of that information. They are sisters!
Funny how you go through phases in collecting wonderful jewelry! And, @Ziacat, you are correct, one always needs more Hopi jewelry…I had not heard of Dawn Lucas…just realize in need a Hopi ring😄
Love that cuff. I am at my daughter’s place again in Iowa city and I always stop at Artfacts since they have a good collection of jewelry of all sorts. I bought these two Hopi items. Has anyone heard of Lendrick Lomayestewa? It seems like only the Japanese collect him. 
so I can’t find out anything about him. Is he young? Old? Etc. The larger piece is by Riley Polequaptewa. My stuff seems sort of bland compared to yours.
Sweet little pendant @nanc9354. I’m not familiar with Lendrick, but Lomayestewa is a name I recognize. I have a piece by Marcus Lomayestewa.
Your piece has the Hopi Silversmith Guild stamp. Lendrick began doing silver work in 1983. Here’s the info found in my reference:
@Bmpdvm
Your cuff is so gorgeous. It’s right up my alley!
Very pretty pieces, I especially like the top one; it reminds me of a quail.
@Bmpdvm, your cuff is beautiful, and here is my little Dawn Lucas ring…
I bought it at the Eiteljorg gift shop years ago.
Thank you for the info. I think I also have some earrings by Marcus. Lots of Lomayestewas. It’s nice to know he started in early 1980’s. @Ziacat …thanks…I think it looks like a quail too. I love that lizard ring…so cute.
Not a new addition for me…but I thought I would show this beautiful cuff on auction at SGW …presently over $800. Not really my style but I still admire the skill and work involved by Billy Betoney" Navajo. Everyone have a good weekend.
Yes @nanc9354, it is an incredible piece! Like you, certainly not my cup of tea; to be honest, it looks like a hodgepodge of styles (IMHO). But it certainly represents an example of Billy Betoney‘s skill all in a single cuff🥴.
Interesting bracelet. I’ve always found the Betoneys’ work super creative and kinda eccentric, obviously very skilled. Garland’s note:
https://www.shopgarlands.com/collections/billy-betoney?srsltid=AfmBOorNCJnsjIIbHFmGeT7KcX2W-VWiCB_MUDlXE6-vExdyTpcG70G7
Interesting that both he and Betty were born in 1934…so they’re 90? Amazing they are still producing (maybe he employs other jewelers?) I must admit I have only very limited knowledge of his work - I have a more “conservative” pair of his turquoise earrings purchased from Garlands ~ 6-7 years ago. I always enjoy seeing the variety of styles produces by jewelers…something for everybody!
I found this paragraph interesting…” Billy tried entering Santa Fe Indian Market on five separate occasions and was denied each time. Determined to show his work, a close relative allowed him to share a booth at Indian Market in 1989. That year he won "Most Creative Design - Any Class,” and continued to win numerous first- and second-place prizes in consecutive years.”.
He was denied 5 times but then wins an award!
I love your description with the use of the word eccentric. The cuff is beautiful, but a little too much going on for me. However, the smaller similar cuffs on Garland’s site are wonderful. And when I scrolled down the listings, the Morenci turquoise in some of his rings was wild.
Wow…this is a long, and fun thread! Back to new NAJewelry additions, I’ll add acouple pieces I purchased on our recent 2 week (yes 2 weeks!) car trip to Utah, Arizona and New Mexico. It wasn’t a buying trip, but you know how that goes😁. We stopped for lunch in the little town of Fredonia on the way to the North rim of the Grand Canyon. Of course I ducked into a small shop advertising Native American and found this nice Hopi pin/pendant by Phillip Honani:
Beautiful pieces! Your Hopi pendant reminds me of mine, and the colors on your gorgeous knifewing are amazing! I don’t really have a guess on the tan stone (does serpentine come in the color in the legs?), but the turquoise in the tail looks very much like the turquoise in a ring I have that I bought at the Hopi House in '93 - it glows!
Back in April I was also disappointed in the items at the Hopi House, although I did like some of the Charlie John jewelry upstairs, but they were awfully high-priced IMO. Downstairs they had a lot of Mary Tafoya pieces that were a LOT higher than what she sold them for at the Eiteljorg Market. One of them was literally listed $300 more than what I’d seen it priced at previously. But I haven’t purchased any jewelry at the Hopi House since '93 when Jeff Ogg was their buyer. When I shopped there back then there was a little step down room that had a case of pawn jewelry. In April that room had children’s books.
I considered buying some earrings by Christopher Nieto at the El Tovar, but I’m glad I held off and waited for Cameron Trading Post.
Edit: I googled serpentine, and couldn’t find any that color. I saw a pic of something that looked very similar, but it was simply labeled, “tan stone” 
Thanks for checking for the tan stone. It wasn’t until I got home that I thought, huh…what is that? Do you have a Hopi Eagle pendant? It’s a simple design, but to me, very appealing.
As I get older I have problems accepting change:woozy_face:. Sometimes my expectations are a bit unrealistic…but, as we’ve discussed before, we should be glad we have experienced these wonderful places back in the “good ol’ days,”
No, my pendant by Manuel Hoyungowa is a Thunderbird, and it doesn’t look that much like yours, but has a similar feel. And I completely agree about the design; it’s what drew me to mine.
I remember that Trading Post in Bluff. We visited the area years ago, and of course being the Hillerman fangirl I am, we had to stay in the hotel that Leaphorn stayed at in the book, Thief of Time.
The more I look at your knifewing, the more I really like the turquoise and tan together, both set off by the dark red. And then the black tips of the wings just finish it off perfectly.
