Ethnological Jewelry Collections

NAVAJO TURQUOISE AND SILVER BRACELETS

Dates: 1880s-1960s
Turquoise stones,worked silver, etc.
Catalog No.: Clockwise from upper left: E-4090, E-7436, E-79, E-2567.

Navajos made bracelets of copper and brass wire as early as the mid-1880s.

Silver bracelets date back at least to the Bosque Redondo period (of the 1860s). Silversmiths began to set turquoise and other gems on bracelets about 1880.