"Another day, another chance to sparkle!"-(Unknown)

INFO

ARTIST: Jolene Bird-Made Exclusively for Plata de Santa Fe Jewelry

TRIBE: Kewa Pueblo Village-Santo Domingo Pueblo

WEIGHT: 188 Grams (6.6 Ounces)

CROSS MATERIAL: Black Agate

CROSS SIZE: 1-1/2” Square

CROSS AMOUNT: 5

BEADS: Faceted & Non Faceted -Matte Black Onyx

ONYX SIZE: 4 mm Round

METAL: Sterling Cones/Hook & Eye Closure

STRUNG ON : Hefty Flex Wire

HALLMARK: 'JB' (Inscribed on sterling cone)

Comes Gift Boxed

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*PLEASE READ BEFORE PURCHASING:

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 mannequin (photos) or if you have a measuring tape, please pull it out & compare everything to the measurements I provided you with.

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A PERSONAL WORD ABOUT KEWA PUEBLOAN AWARD WINNER "JOLENE BIRD":

Having worked closely with Jolene now for years, one thing I can personally say about her, is that there is nothing that she doesn't come in close contact with that she doesn't get her inspirations from, whether man made or God given. And it's what she sees with her eye that she then goes on to recreate & it’s this, that she also can’t stress enough to her artisan son Charles..She consistently tells him to 'be inspired' by what he sees & then emulate it with a mosaic picture done in traditional stone and shell.

I believe what Jolene offers, is not just about being another Puebloan mosaic artist, doing it the same way as everyone else, but rather stepping out of her own boundaries that separates her from others.. Jolene has wow’d us and all the judges at Native American juried events where she has gone on to making a mosaic inlaid chess set, mosaic sunglasses, fully mosaic gourd pots, mosaic chairs, a mini sized mosaic inlaid Volkswagen Beetle car and even went as far as fully mosaic inlaying a Gibson guitar!!(And that's just SOME of what she's made!) And at present, she's even working on a mosaic 'painting' of a woman she came in contact with that impressed Jolene enough to ‘paint’ her in mosaic form! The word "impossible" is NOT in this artists vocabulary! Jolene's work is highly collectible & gives us a historical ancestral Puebloan past,but with a contemporary edginess !