Astounding Navajo Gilbert Damon Fox Turquoise Sterling Silver Bracelet

  

Beautiful bracelet is set with Natural Bright color Fox Turquoise with leaf-work design. Featuring hand stamped designs Amazing piece! Inside measurement: 5"½ plus 1"?

Gap 19mmwide at its widest point weight 18.9grams great addition to your collection Stone:? The Fox Turquoise mine, near Lander County in Nevada was discovered in the early 1900's. It was once Nevada's largest producer of turquoise with some half million pounds. This mine has been closed for quite some time.

In prehistoric times, indigenous peoples mined turquoise and found large nuggets. It produces a huge quantity of good-quality green or blue-green stone with a distinctive matrix. The Fox mine has also been known as the Cortez mine. Made by Gilbert Damon gilbert was raised in Cow Springs, Arizona, on the Navajo Nation in the northwestern portion of Arizona.

As he grew up, his parents educated him in the traditional culture and prayers of the Navajo. Parents and grandparents, alike, offer the knowledge to understand ceremonies and prayers. As a young Navajo in a rural area, he began to express these teachings through the art of silversmithing.