Native American Handmade Jewelry
- Squash Blossom Necklace - The squash blossom necklace is maybe the most recognizable Native American piece of Squash Blossom Necklace wearable art. You will find the necklace surrounded by debate. It [...]
- Hammered Coin Silver - Vernon Tracy - Navajo silversmith Vernon Tracy shares with us some of the steps it takes to turn coin silver into a piece of wearable art. It all [...]
- “Dead Pawn” – How it Works - In Gallup, New Mexico things are done a little differently than, well say Las Vegas where “Pawn Stars” is filmed. When our customers come into [...]
- Saddles Galore! - Navajo artists like Thomas Curtis Sr., Leonard Nez, Wayne Franklin, & Oscar Alexius have something else in common, the Rodeo. All of them have competed [...]
- Costs of Native American Art - Tobe Turpen Jr. changed the style of his trading business that his father started in the early 1900s. Instead of providing dry goods and being [...]
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Identifying & Discovering - Identifying Your Navajo, Hopi, & Zuni Jewelry, Plus Maker: Who made my jewelry? This might be a question we hear a dozen times a day, and the person who asks expects us to know. Sometimes we just don’t...
Appraising & Evaluating - Whirling Log Rug 1920s?: Hello, As part of an estate, I acquired a few old Navaho rugs. Most of them date to the 1920s. This is one that I need help on. What is the...
Appraising & Evaluating - Are these sterling silver: ZUNI KACHINA DANCER STERLING RING SIGNED G B NATACHU AND STERLING SILVER NECKLACE. My Mom told me she had met this great woman named Betty and...
Identifying & Discovering - help identify RMT modernist style sterling ring: can someone help identify this sterling silver ring? it is clearly marked RMT and not sure about the other hallmark on it. i may try to take...
Identifying & Discovering - help with hallmark on silver & coral ring: ...

- Perry Null Trading:
- You grew up in Tohatchi?
- Sunshine Reeves:
- Twin Lakes, I went to school and Tohatchi and graduated from high school there in 1983.
- Perry Null Trading:
- So what was your childhood like? Did you play lots of sports?
- Sunshine Reeves:
- No sports, I worked. My family told me I needed to work and I had my first job at 13.
- Perry Null Trading:
- What did you do?


















