A bad breakup with Clark Gable brought Millicent Rogers to Taos, New Mexico, in 1947. There, the Standard Oil heiress found more than just solace. She discovered a rich Native American culture that ...

Jesse Monongya is a master Navajo/Hopi jeweler Monongya is best known for his night-sky designs inlaid into a bear shape, which symbolizes strength and power, as well as other forms. His bracelets, ...

Hopi Reservation, 1.6 million acres of mostly raw wilderness, is home to 12 autonomous villages As a tribe, the Hopi have been protective of their traditions and ways of life -- and their privacy The ...

Sacred to Indigenous people, beloved by collectors, one blue-green stone has huge cultural cachet in the “Land of Enchantment.” Indigenous artisans in New Mexico are known for their turquoise jewelry ...

For millennia turquoise has been the choice for indigenous Southwestern jewelers, and others. For millennia, turquoise has been the gemstone of choice for jewelers of the Southwest, a tradition that ...

Mahnaz Ispahani Bartos specializes in the work of independent makers such as Andrew Grima of England and Charles Loloma, a Hopi artist. By Rachel Garrahan Mahnaz Ispahani Bartos’s 1985 doctoral thesis ...