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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 234154, member: 2844&quot;]Yes, I would also say Southwest. It could turn out to be NA, I will keep searching, but even then, it is not signed.</p><p>While I understand the sensitivity, I&#039;m not as fussy as some about those things. Non-native Southwestern artists have made some beautiful jewelry, and Sicilian Frank Patania had a profound influence on Native Southwestern jewellery. So I don&#039;t even see the need to claim something to be NA when I have no proof.</p><p>Classic Navajo leaf, flower and vine decorated jewellery is true Art Nouveau style, and is often mistaken for Art Nouveau period here in Europe, and Zuni channelwork could be seen as Art Deco with Zuni designs. Art Nouveau inspired is often claimed as Native, and others working with those designs accused of cultural appropriation. To me, from another part of the world, that boggles the mind. By the way, the Art Nouveau jewellery style also lingered on in Poland, and is considered traditional there.</p><p>NA artists do not always have the &#039;tunnel vision&#039; some collectors have. Charles Loloma always acknowledged other influences on his work. He told me he started using lapis after seeing an exhibition on ancient Egypt, and after a visit to Japan he added pearls. He liked traditional African ostrich egg discs, and fit them very nicely into his bracelets. Now lapis is used in many NA pieces, even pearls and African ostrich egg discs sometimes.</p><p><br /></p><p>The mines are indeed a tricky thing. I have sold a lot of Sleeping Beauty turquoise jewellery (straight from the artists) decades ago, it was always that very pristine looking SB. While researching this bracelet, I was surprised to see so many SB nuggets (also in turquoise mine information) with substantial black veining, equally attractive.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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