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Where are you buying your turquoise jewelry? You would be surprised where counterfeit turquoise is showing up. KRQE’s Larry Barker did a great investigation last November. Please watch this report. See the full story here on the KRQE website.
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Meet Darryl Dean Begay a Navajo a well known Navajo silversmith living the the Gallup New Mexico area with his wife and kids. Darryl is known for his work with Tufa casting. In this video he introduces himself and his work. Hi, My Name is Darryl Dean Begay, I’m a Navajo jeweler from Roundrock Arizona. […]
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My name is Tchin. It’s spelled “ T-C-H-I-N” and I’m from New York. I am Narragansett and Blackfeet. Narragansetts are from Rhode Island and Blackfeet from Canada. I make jewelry, I use our traditional wampum from the North Atlantic, sacred to us Narragansett people and items as natural as I can such as bear claws […]
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Apache Blue Turquoise is a quality Nevada turquoise mine owned by Silver State Turquoise” Which consists of four of us (Tony, Trenton, Tom, and Danny Otteson). Navajo silversmith Darryl Dean Begay shares with us a few stones from this mine along with a quick example of Morenci Turquoise. These are rough. Apache blue turquoise it’s […]
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John Beeman a jewelry artist and long time Native American jewelry collector invites you to visit his shop in Gallup New Mexico where you can come in a meet him and the Native American Silversmiths, Aaron Anderson, Darryl Dean Begay and Lester James. My name is John Beeman and I have Beeman jewelry design here […]
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