Navajo (Diné), Byron Yellowhorse
Southwest, United States
2021
Sterling silver with jet, turquoise, coral, and spiny oyster shell, signed
Height 2 1/4 in (5.7 cm), including bail
Provenance: Private collection, Las Cruces, New Mexico
A rectangular pendant by Byron Yellowhorse depicting a Monument Valley night scene in fine stone inlay. Orange spiny oyster mesas rise from a foreground floor against a jet sky, with a turquoise moon, a coral planet, and small inlaid stars scattered across the field. The inlay is set stone to stone in a plain silver bezel bordered top and bottom by applied silver raindrops, and hung from a wide split bail.
Byron Yellowhorse is a Navajo (Diné) silversmith born in 1972, who learned jewelry making from his father Frank Yellowhorse within the well known Yellowhorse family of silversmiths. He is recognized for extremely fine hand cut micro inlay, at times drawing on Navajo Eye Dazzler weaving patterns for his color compositions. His work was featured, with that of his brother Alvin Yellowhorse, in the August 1999 edition of Smithsonian Magazine.
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Navajo (Diné), Byron Yellowhorse
Southwest, United States
2021
Sterling silver with jet, turquoise, coral, and spiny oyster shell, signed
Height 2 1/4 in (5.7 cm), including bail
Provenance: Private collection, Las Cruces, New Mexico
A rectangular pendant by Byron Yellowhorse depicting a Monument Valley night scene in fine stone inlay. Orange spiny oyster mesas rise from a foreground floor against a jet sky, with a turquoise moon, a coral planet, and small inlaid stars scattered across the field. The inlay is set stone to stone in a plain silver bezel bordered top and bottom by applied silver raindrops, and hung from a wide split bail.
Byron Yellowhorse is a Navajo (Diné) silversmith born in 1972, who learned jewelry making from his father Frank Yellowhorse within the well known Yellowhorse family of silversmiths. He is recognized for extremely fine hand cut micro inlay, at times drawing on Navajo Eye Dazzler weaving patterns for his color compositions. His work was featured, with that of his brother Alvin Yellowhorse, in the August 1999 edition of Smithsonian Magazine.
We ship free anywhere in the world, fully insured, packed by hand.
