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| Welcome to Double Dee
Deals. We specialize in quality, certified authentic Native
American Indian Jewelry, Southwestern jewelry and
Turquoise Jewelry, handmade by Native
American Indian Navajo, Zuni and Hopi Indian Tribes of the Southwest. We feature
spectacular, Indian made jewelry, handmade by Navajo, Zuni
and
Hopi
Jewelry artists. |
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Navajo Jewelry:
Navajo jewelry is most often known for its turquoise jewelry and
extraordinary use of coral, amethyst, lapis, spiny oyster and many
brilliant gemstones, polished and set in a sterling silver setting as
well as their stamping techniques with sterling silver.
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Zuni Jewelry:
Zuni jewelry artists create beautiful jewelry utilizing their
well-known channel inlay technique. This technique is where the
turquoise jewelry, coral, shell and other fine gemstones are inlaid into
complex channels of sterling silver over a sterling silver base. Zuni
Indian jewelry is also well know for their petite point or needle
point settings where the turquoise jewelry is fashioned with long narrow
gemstones cut and inlaid into tightly fit settings.
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Hopi Jewelry:
Hopi jewelry is usually all sterling silver utilizing
an overlay technique. The overlay technique entails using a jewelers
handsaw to cut a design into a sheet of sterling silver then soldering
the sheet over the top of a second like-sized sheet. This creates a
recessed silver background, which is then oxidized to enhance the
contrast between the two layers.
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Santo
Domingo Jewelry:
Santo jewelry artists do not use silversmithing in their
jewelry. Instead, most of their handcrafted earrings are a mosaic
design, utilizing turquoise, jet, coral, shell and other highly polished
gemstones. |
Jewelry Tribal Styles:
Indian made jewelry by the Navajo jewelers in general accentuate
their silverwork which includes stamping patterns and a
technique called applique where the Indian jewelry artist
includes shapes such as leaves, flowers and feathers cut from
wire or silver sheet and then soldered onto the underlying
piece. Zuni jewelry tends to accentuate
their mosaic, inlay and needlepoint cluster lapidary stonework.
Hopi Indian jewelers emphasize their overlay technique creating
unique designs in their silverwork by cutting a design in a
sheet of silver and melding the cut design onto the underlay
silver base. |
Identification of the Jewelry Artist:
Indian made jewelry identified by the artist by their hallmark is highly
collectable and provides assurance that you are buying authentic
Indian jewelry. Nearly all Indian jewelers sign their work or
stamp it with the hallmark. The Center for Indigenous Arts &
Cultures has biographical profiles for more than 5,000 Indian
jewelers. Authentication of who made the jewelry is as
important as buying any other kind of one-of-a-kind art to a
collector of, or to the individual interested in
buying authentic
Native American jewelry. |
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