Phil Russell and his wife, Fannie Bitsoi-Russell make some of the finest, most meticulously crafted jewelry today. We are very fortunate to be able to offer several pieces of their work.

Two views of a lovely bracelet set with five natural turquoise, 5/ inch wide and made to fit a small wrist. $3200. The pendant is 1 /58 inches from top to bottom. $600. BOTH IN SANTA FE

Four rings set with natural turquoise. From left to right: Size 8 1/2 and 1.25 by 1 inch. $675. The next is a size 7 1/2. it measure 1`.25 by 7/8. The turquoise is from the Cloud Mountain Mine. $675. The one with the larger oval turquoise is a size 8 3/4. 2 by 1 1/8 inches. $900. The last one in the row is larger than the photo suggests: 2 by 1 1/2 inches. $975. ALL IN SANTA FE

Matagi Sorensen (Yavapai-Apache) graduated from Northern  Arizona University with a BFA and from Arizona State University with an MFA. Influenced and mentored by metalsmiths like Maria Samora, Pat Pruitt and Don Supplee, he is a contemporary artist whose hand fabricated and lost wax-cast jewelry designs are sleek and modern yet they draw from traditional motifs and the natural world.                         “There was a point when my tools started to become my inspiration, because of what they can do and what you have to go through to learn how to make them work.

The dark oxidized sterling swirl bracelet in the center. is 7/8 inch wide and a small. (SOLD). The dark oxidized sterling earrings are set off with a nice diamond set in gold. 2 5/8 inch long. $495 (SANTA FE)

A pair of cast ‘twist’ bracelets: one with an oxidized finish and the other without it. Medium. $275 each. A double V cuff, 1 inch wide and a small. $475. The swirl ring is a size 6 3/4. 1.5 inches long. SOLD. What I call his Wingspan ring is 3 inches across and a size 8. SOLD. ALL IN SANTA FE

Duane Maktima's work is the result of being an accomplished and award winning jeweler going on his Thirty-seventh year. That knowledge gained throughout those years is evident as his work represents a refinement only available by such accomplished hands.

His mission has been to sustain integrity as a master craftsman and designer, striving only for the best. Duane is also deeply rooted as an advocate for the continuation and survival of the cultural arts within his native heritage of the southwestern pueblo people.

Duane was a premiered artisan for the Chesapeake Gallery at the Grand Opening event of the National Museum of the American Indian, Washington, DC. 2004

A graduate of Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Ariz.(1981)-College of Creative Arts and recipient of two distinguished Alumni Awards-1990 "Jubilee Year"(100 year celebration) and 1999-"Millenia"(Year 2000-national celebration)

(from his website: www.duanemaktima.com)

This first pendant by Duane is set with Rosarita (gold slag), opal and Ithaca Peak turquoise. ~2 inches long and $1,100. Next is a pendant set with Black Jade and Ithaca Peak turquoise, the channel between the two stones is 14k gold. $925. The last pendant in the row is inlaid with coral, lapis, Ithaca Peak turquoise, and sugilite with 14k gold channels. 2 3/8 inches long by 1.75 inches wide. $3,200. (ALL IN SANTA FE)

A pendant which Duane titled “Lady Misty Cloud”, sterling overlay with a piece of gem silica set in gold. 2 inches long and $1,100. Next is an overlay parrot pin, 2.25 inches from head to tail and $265. Third is an overlay roadrunner pin measuring just over 2 inches from beak to tail and $175. The post earrings in the last photo in this row are set with Ithaca Peak turquoise, Rosarita (gold slag) and have a gold divider between the stones. They are 2.25 inches in total length (2 inches from the post down). $965. (ALL IN TUCSON)

Duane’s sterling silver forged collar is $965. (SANTA FE)

All three pairs of the earrings above are by Duane. The parrots are 1 1/8 inches long and are 1 5/8 inches wide. SOLD. The pair in the center are set with some gorgeous Rosarita or gold slag. This pair has 14k gold posts as well as gold jump rings. They are 2.5 inches long from the post down and $3,600. The last pair with clouds and lightning are 2.25 inches long, these also have 14k gold posts. $750. (ALL in SANTA FE)

Navajo silver master, Jennifer Curtis created this marvelous box set with an equally marvelous piece of natural turquoise from the Stormy Mountain Mine in Nevada. the feet are half beads and the box itself is highly unusual for having graceful sloped, tapered sides - a very difficult feat. It measures 3 by 3.25 by 2.25 inches. $6500. (TUCSON)

Work of hers and her late father, Thomas Curtis, are featured in the Heard Museum’s exhibit: Elegant Vessels: A Century of Southwest Silver Boxes.

This very wearable and stunning concha belt is in our Santa Fe shop/ Each of the twelve conchas is 2 inches in diameter and the buckle is 2.5 inches. SOLD.

Ben Nighthorse Campbell was born to a poor family in Auburn, California in 1933. He grew up to be a Northern Cheyenne chief, Korean War veteran, judo wrestler, U.S. Olympian, jewelry designer and the first Native American to serve in the U.S. Senate.

Campbell dropped out of high school and joined the Air Force, serving in the Korean War. While serving in the military he studied the martial arts and became a judo wrestler, captaining the judo team in the 1964 Olympics in Tokyo. After returning to the States he graduated from San Diego State University with a degree in physical education and fine arts. He also attended Meiji University in Tokyo. He has received more than 200 awards for his jewelry designs.

Campbell began his political career in 1982 becoming a state legislator in the state of Colorado. In 1987 he moved to the U.S. House of Representatives and then in 1992 became a senator from Colorado. He was reelected in 1998.

He served as a member of the Appropriations Committee, Energy and Natural Resources Committee, Veteran’s Affairs Committee and the Indian Affairs Committee and chaired the Helsinki Commission. He was the first Native American to chair the Indian Affairs Committee. He has worked to pass legislation settling Native American water rights and protecting Colorado’s wilderness areas and worked to prevent fetal alcohol syndrome. He sponsored legislation creating the Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site, The Black Canyon of Gunnison National Park and the Colorado Ute Settlement Act Amendment of 2000.

Ben and I first met about 1975 when the Indian Arts and Crafts Association was getting off the ground.

Made a decade or so ago, this came out of a private collection in Tucson. Gorgeous interior inlay paired with a fabulous turquoise inlaid exterior AND inlaid with turquoise around the edges. 2.5 inches wide at the point. Made for a large wrist: 6.5 inches with a 1.25 inch opening. $8500 (SANTA FE)