Navajo Sterling Silver

Old Vintage Navajo Guild Sterling Silver PETRIFIED WOOD Cuff Bracelet This listing is for a vintage Navajo cuff bracelet, handcrafted by an Artist of the Navajo Guild. The bracelet was crafted with Sterling Silver and PETRIFIED WOOD Vintage Sterling Silver Navajo Arts and Crafts Guild Bracelet with Natural PETRIFIED WOOD. Organized in 1939 in Ft. Wingate, New Mexico, and started as a co-op in Pine Springs, Arizona, in 1940 the Navajo Arts and Crafts Guild is wholly owned by the Navajo Nation and has been creating jewelry, arts, and crafts for over 70 years. According to Bille Hougart in “Native American and Southwestern Silver Hallmarks”, Ambrose Roanhorse, Chester Yellowhair and Fred Peshlaki helped form the Guild to provide a base from which students graduating from the silversmith classes at the Indian Schools could practice their newly acquired skills in the marketplace. In the 1970s, the guild became the Navajo Arts and Crafts Enterprise. Today, there are guild stores across Arizona and New Mexico. Petrified Wood is the official State Fossil of Arizona. Metaphysical Properties Of Petrified Wood. Petrified Wood in general is said to be a stone of patience, and slow and steady growth. It is believed that Petrified Wood can help one overcome limiting emotional patterns handed down through one’s ancestors. Size bracelet is 5.1 plus 1″¼ gap 1″¼×16mmwide weight 44.4grams is paragraph in the inside 1942 crossland no marks but tested as sterling silver great addition to your collection? This item is in the category “Collectibles\Cultures & Ethnicities\Native American: US\1935-Now\Jewelry”. The seller is “joseeligogarciaciachino” and is located in this country: US. This item can be shipped to United States, Denmark, Guatemala, Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Vatican City State, Sierra Leone, Nauru, Wallis and Futuna, Anguilla, El Salvador, Gambia, Dominican Republic, Malaysia, Cameroon, Guyana, Taiwan, Azerbaijan Republic, Poland, Macau, Georgia, Oman, Suriname, Tonga, United Arab Emirates, Kenya, Argentina, San Marino, Guinea-Bissau, Armenia, Uzbekistan, Bhutan, Eritrea, Senegal, Togo, Saint Kitts-Nevis, Morocco, Ireland, Qatar, Burundi, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Netherlands, Slovakia, Slovenia, Equatorial Guinea, Thailand, Mauritania, Belize, Philippines, Aruba, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Republic of the Congo, Sweden, Colombia, Spain, Iceland, Estonia, Macedonia, Belgium, Israel, Kuwait, Liechtenstein, Benin, Algeria, Bermuda, Montserrat, Zambia, South Korea, Antigua and Barbuda, Vanuatu, Ecuador, Albania, Italy, Swaziland, Ethiopia, Monaco, Niger, Tanzania, Laos, Pakistan, Burkina Faso, Panama, Singapore, Kyrgyzstan, Switzerland, Ghana, Djibouti, Chile, China, Cape Verde Islands, Moldova, Mali, Botswana, Republic of Croatia, Cambodia, Madagascar, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Indonesia, Portugal, Malta, Tajikistan, Vietnam, Cayman Islands, Paraguay, Saint Helena, Lebanon, Cyprus, Seychelles, Liberia, Rwanda, Bangladesh, Bolivia, Maldives, Australia, Austria, Gibraltar, Sri Lanka, Hong Kong, Central African Republic, Gabon Republic, Lesotho, Nigeria, Zimbabwe, Mauritius, Saint Lucia, Bulgaria, Jordan, Guinea, Czech Republic, Norway, Canada, Côte d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast), Turks and Caicos Islands, Chad, Kiribati, Andorra, Turkmenistan, Grenada, Greece, Romania, Costa Rica, Haiti, India, Greenland, Mexico, Afghanistan, Serbia, Kazakhstan, Montenegro, Saudi Arabia, Mongolia, Japan, Nepal, Bahamas, Lithuania, Bahrain, Trinidad and Tobago, United Kingdom, Malawi, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Hungary, Angola, Nicaragua, Finland, Tunisia, Luxembourg, Uganda, Turkey, Western Samoa, France, Germany, Egypt, Latvia, Jamaica, Mozambique, Namibia, Peru, South Africa, Brunei Darussalam, Honduras.

• Origin: Southwest United States
• Provenance: Ownership History Not Available
• Tribal Affiliation: Navajo
• Artisan: Navajo Guild
• Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
• Handmade: Yes
• Modified Item: No
• Culture: Native American: US