Gold and Silver Bear Pendant
Artist: Robert Taylor
Size: 1 3/4” x 1”
SKU
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Robert Taylor has fashioned a hollow sterling silver pendant of a bear and decorated it with 14-karat gold images of traditional Navajo life. On one side there are tiny pictures of a weaver’s loom, horse and sheep and Monument Valley. On the reverse are images of a hogan, horse, sheep and dog. A tiny dot of turquoise marks the bear’s eyes on both sides.
$990.00
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Gold and Silver Bear Pendant is available to buy in increments of 1
Robert Taylor
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."
Silversmith Work
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?
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Bear
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.
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