A PERSONAL WORD:

To experience the work of this husband & wife's team effort, is to experience the meaning of what team work really is & the inspiration you get when you work well together, by feeding off of the others ideas, etc. Married for years, both Delbert & Torevia started out making jewelry like most Puebloan children do and that is by living in a home with family members who make traditional jewelry day & night & it was this tradition, that was actually passed down through Torevia's & Delbert's Ancestral Puebloan ancestors who once lived in the Pueblo Bonito/Chaco Canyon/Mesa Verde areas & with each generation, this tradition of working with natural shells & stones gets passed onto every new generation.

With this couple, the work is dictated through communication, so while Torevia cuts,shapes,drills most all of the materials, it's Delbert who does all that beautiful finishing like beveling the material's, taking off the rough edges, etc. so that each is given a professionally finished clean look.. What I find extremely impressive, is that EVERYTHING they cut is done by 'eye & feel', without the use of calipers for exact measuring..

This very traditional Kewa Puebloan family live quietly & comfortably in the village, where they have their own farm & grow corn, raise cattle, sheep, pigs, peacocks, you name it!!!

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THE TAB NECKLACE:

Made exclusively for my store, this was made in a green/orange theme with 5 strands of all hand cut vibrant colored orange Spiny Oyster shell & earthy green Nevada turquoise.

The oyster shell heishi is cut in a precise 3.2 mm roundness, whereas each tear drop shaped "Tab" 1st started from a larger rock & then one by one, were cut down & then beautifully beveled over & over to give each their smooth texture & shape. The tabs vary in size & thickness, thus validating their hand made factor.

Torevia put a 2" link extender at the end, so you can drop it from it's shortest 17.5" length, to about 19.5". You can put the hook anywhere within the extender for length variation.

With this necklace, you can dress it up or down, depending on what you wear it with! You can also pull from the 2 materials & pair it with other pieces you may have with these same materials.

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SPECIFICS:

ARTIST: Torevia & Delbert Crespin made EXCLUSIVELY for Plata de Santa Fe Jewelry

TRIBE: Kewa Pueblo Village-Santo Domingo Pueblo, NM

MATERIALS: Orange Spiny Oyster Shell-Nevada Green Turquoise

WEIGHT: 6.2 Ounces (176 Grams)

LENGTH: 17.5" (This measurement is the shortest-without the extender)

ADD EXTENDER LENGTH: 2" (Can drop it to 19.5")

ORANGE SPINY OYSTER HEISHI SIZE: 3.2 mm

STRUNG ON: Fox Tail

METAL: Sterling Silver Hook & Eye-Beads-Extender Chain

COMES GIFT BOXED

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PLEASE READ BEFORE PURCHASING:

****I do not consider myself a 'professional photographer" but I do try to give you photos that are "realistic" in color,just so you're not shocked, nor disappointed when you get the piece. I find photographing anything with 'yellow' in it, (orange, green) can come up a little more vivid than other colors,so please take this into consideration. Although jewelry generally always looks better in person, you still have to take the monitor you're looking at the item with, into consideration. Please go through each photo to see any variation to get an idea. Whether it be your computer monitor or phone screen, the item can appear to be either more vivid (Or duller).

In order to give you close up photos so I can provide you with all the detail, photos can tend to make the item look much more larger & everything is more magnified than in actuality. So to get an idea of size,you can either look at it on the body (photo 2) or if you have a measuring tape, please pull it out & compare everything to the measurements I provided you with.