Few Navajo jewelers choose to work in 14k gold, and none is better than Robert Taylor. These dressy earrings are a most unusual jewelry statement. The jagged arrow-shaped heartline beginning from the bear’s mouth indicates that air and life is being drawn into the body.
$750.00
Availability: In stock
14k Gold Bear Earrings is available to buy in increments of 1
Robert Taylor - Silver & Goldsmith: "Cluster, channel, leaf, inlay, casting... I've done about everything," Robert Taylor talks about his silver and goldsmithing, "There's a lot of artists that do it." And then he confides the reason he has set himself apart from other craftsmen. "I didn't really get anywhere until I decided to design my own style."
When and how the Navajo acquired the art of working metals is unknown but there are reasons for supposing that it was introduced among them, or at least more developed and improved upon by them, since the time they have occupied their present country?
The bear was the next chief to be called. He was given a name but he was not satisfied. He became so angry that First Man used the word "shash" to quiet him. The bear repeated it four times, and he said that it had a strange sound, and when one said it aloud one had and awesome feeling. So he went off well content that "shash" should be his name.