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Americana Indian Shows

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P.O.MERICANA Box 3447 • Flagstaff, Arizona 86003 • Fax INDIAN (928) 774-3139 • [email protected] SHOWS • www.americana.net A PRESENTS OUR FALL SERIES • 2018 U THE ELKS LODGE RQ OISE TUJ RIVERSIDE, CA EWELRY 6166 BROCKTON RIVERSIDE, CA 92506 (928) 606-2972 (Next to the Department of Motor Vehicles) FRIDAY...... SEPTEMBER 28, 2018 ....11 AM - 7 PM SATURDAY...... SEPTEMBER 29, 2018.....11 AM - 7 PM SUNDAY...... SEPTEMBER 30, 2018.....11 AM - 7 PM

➴ 35+ CASES OF and JEWELRY ➴ OVER 200 PIECES OF SOUTHWESTERN INDIAN POTTERY - Historic & Contemporary ➴ HOPI KACHINAS ➴ NAVAJO RUGS OUR NEXT SHOW IN THE RIVERSIDE AREA WILL BE JANUARY 2019 ➴ BASKETS - Historic & Contemporary ➴ ART and SANDPAINTINGS • DIRECT RESERVATION BUYERS FOR OVER 50 YEARS • FULL GUARANTEES • EVALUATIONS ➴ SCULPTURE and FETISHES

PLEASE PASS THE EXTRA NEWSLETTER We accept ON TO SOMEONE YOU KNOW!! as well as cash and travelers checks INVENTORY JEWELRY

Another summer under our belt, and that means we’ll be headed great vintage Hopi pieces including a by Phil Poseyesva, a your way with great jewelry and arts from the summer events. The sun face pin by Joe Coochyumptewa, two very nice “man in the maze” big three from Flagstaff - Museum of Northern Arizona’s rings by Cyrus Josytewa and a bolo by Michael Gashwazra. Zuni, Hopi and Navajo events, and the New As if all this hasn’t kept us busy enough, we continued going Mexico events - Gallup Ceremonial and Santa through some more of the boxes of jewelry that came Fe Indian Market all had the nation’s top artists out of our silver shop in Yuma Arizona and found bringing their very best to vie for top honors in about 40 pieces of jewelry, most of which were these last few months. built in the 1980’s and just needed a little TLC and As we write this we can know one thing for sure a polishing. - we’ll have fabulous pieces from many of the artists * the latest scoop from one of our sources is that the Dry Creek mine may be active who competed in these events, some of whose pieces were again. There is supposedly a new variety of being extracted, the color of built just for us! That’s not to say that “unknown” artists are not which is a darker, smoky blue as well as some almost white stones with light brown superb. In fact, they are all stars in their own right as far as we are (and is a true white turquoise). We’ll look into this and see if we can find more concerned. The talent involved in the making of the jewelry, carvings, about the status of this mine, which was closed for a number of years. pottery, kachinas and more is always astounding. To that end, we assembled another great selection of Native American jewelry, sand paintings, kachinas, pottery, Navajo rugs and art for this FETISHES & CARVINGS show series. We have a large selection of Zuni animal fetishes on hand. Many of We amped up our beautiful neckwear collection. Included are three these carvings are by well known, award winning artists and are crafted very colorful Santo Domingo which are reversible and a from an assortment of stones and organic material. Marvin Toya, new Lupe Lovato shell . We picked up a very nice from the Jemez Pueblo carved several mid-size pieces that measure Dry Creek turquoise* necklace, a Sleeping Beauty turquoise squash in the six to eight inch range and some smaller inexpensive gift sized blossom necklace and a reversible turquoise and squash which is ones, including eagles, owls, corn maidens and others. A must-see is at a super low price and quite a value considering the cost of coral today Florentine Martinez’s exquisitely carved turquoise sculpture featuring . We also put together a nice selection of orange and red spiny oyster Avanyu/Kolowisi ( serpent) over an incredibly detailed pueblo. We . have several other carvings by Florentine including one of the coolest We have been purchasing lots of jewelry from our artist friends. Eric met chameleon lizards we have ever seen. Florentine is a multi-award up with Kee Yazzie twice so far and got some new , winning Zuni carver, and this masterpiece shows why! and . Albert Nells made us another beautiful bolo and two bracelets featuring his ultra-modern design. Mary Tom created two new masterpieces and we were able to get three pair of earrings from Pottery & KACHINAS her brother Nelson Begay before the August competitions started. Thanks to the summer competitions we have a great selection of We’ll try to get a few more pieces from each of these artists before we pottery from several award-winning artists, as well as a good selection leave for this show series, but won’t know what those will be as it will of decorative pieces with horsehair and slip-cast pieces with detailed be close to our departure time. Alton Bedonie made another multi hand-etching work. Whether you are looking for a historical piece or a colored necklace and is currently working on a shorter necklace with contemporary vessel we have a great selection from which to choose. the new Golden Hills (Kazakhstan) turquoise. He is making some The Hopi kachinas are in full swing with a dance taking place just much requested pendants with Golden Hills turquoise as well. This about every other weekend somewhere on Hopi during the summer stone is stunning and high-quality, so we’re making what we can while and early fall. These many celebrations and ceremonies give new it is readily available and somewhat affordable. Alton also made two inspiration to the talented carvers. Now is when we see an increase more of his three-stone multi color drop pendants and some beautiful in the number of pieces available for sale and consequently have a ladies rings. We are hoping to have something special from Alton with great selection of kachinas. Our artists include Marlin and Dana Ammolite. Tamara and I obtained some magnificent pieces of Ammolite Pinto, Wilmer and Wilber Kaye, Raymond Chee, Laurence Dallas, at the Prescott gem show and we will get these to Alton and Brian (our Sterling McRae and many others. master ). Brian is currently working on a 14kt gold and Lander turquoise piece. The stone is a little smaller than a nickel and weighs 14.4cts which is large by Lander standards. This stone is gorgeous SANDPAINTINGS, RUGS & ART and will be a fantastic piece of jewelry when Brian gets finished with it. Lander is the rarest and most expensive turquoise today and is almost We restocked and have a fantastic selection of the Navajo sand never seen out for sale. It has been said that there was no more than painting boxes you guys love (they make great gifts!). The artists in 200 lbs of this high grade Lander to have been mined (and the mine has Shiprock, New Mexico added a new size box which measures 7” by 13” been long-since closed). and is perfect for organizing all your TV remote devices and making your coffee table much neater! We also have a great selection of smaller Other great pieces we picked up include fabulous bracelets by Andy sand paintings was well as a few of the larger sizes by some of the top Cadman, Happy Piasso, Delbert Gordon, Jay Livingston (with Carico Lake turquoise) and Rebecca Begay. Rebecca’s work is renowned for award-winning artists today. her incredibly detailed tufa . This is set with Bisbee turquoise. See you at the show! Stone Weaver artists continue to come up with beautiful new designs. We have a nice selection of their earrings, pendants and rings Eric and Matt resplendent with their exquisite inlay work. Eric made requests for some more of their rings in size 13, 14 and 15 but we will have to wait and see what happens. Also in our new inventory is a very nice selection of White Buffalo earrings and pendants. We added more great jewelry from private collections to include a very HUGE SAVINGS heavy Sleeping Beauty turquoise and silver bracelet by Daniel Benally,

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