Vintage Navajo Sterling & Turq Bracelet Ambrose Roanhorse or Ambrose Lincoln

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Vintage Navajo Sterling & Turq Bracelet Ambrose Roanhorse or Ambrose Lincoln :
$687.99

Roanhorse was instrumental in therevival of traditional technology in fashioning Navajo Jewelry, largely inresponse to decades of inferior jewelry production for the tourist trade. TheIndian Arts and Crafts Board (IACB) asked him to travel to silversmithingcenters such as Pine Springs to encourage a return to “old Style” silver designand construction techniques. He demonstrated these techniques at the 1939Golden Gate International Exposition, the same year he became Director of thenewly formed Wingate Guild became thecore of the newly formed Navajo Guild. Roanhorseand his former student Chester Yellowhorse served on a committee that helpedform the Guild. He went on to establish Guild centers in various places,including Window Rock, Toadlena and Shiprock.
In 1954, Roanhorse was among thefirst Native Americans to receive the PalmesAcademiques Award, bestowed by the French government, a medal created byNapoleon. His work is on display in collections of major museums, including theMuseum of the American Indian in New York City.Note: Ambrose Roanhorse and Ambrose Lincoln have been mistakenlyidentified as the same person (see Ambrose Lincoln p.198). Marks:A R (used in 1950s; formed into a rocking horse shape); A (inside a keystone image); there is a smallversion of this stamp, used on small items such as stick pins.

Lincoln attended Fort Wingate IndianSchool and Graduated in 1939. John Adair in his book Navajo and PuebloSilversmiths list both Ambrose Lincoln and Ambrose Roanhorse on the same pageof the appendix if Navajo silversmiths. Also, Jonathon Batkin notes thatAdair’s field notes of 1940 identify Lincoln then working at Zuni for both C.G.Wallace and Charles Kelsey. Ironically, Lincoln worked as the silversmithinginstructor at Santa Fe Indian School in 1942, the same school where Roanhorsetaught from 1931 to 1939.
Ambrose Lincoln most commonlyproduced cast silver pieces sometimes with turquoise channel inlay, but it isuncertain if he did the inlay himself. At the Gallup Inter-tribal Ceremonial of1956, he collaborated with Lambert Homer (Zuni) to win the Second Place GrandPrize for a channel-work bracelet.
Ambrose Lincoln served in the Army during World War II. He died in 1989 and isburied in Gallup. Lincoln’s work is signed with a capital “A” inside akeystone-shaped design.

One can make an argument that it was Ambrose Roanhorsethat made this bracelet and one can argue that it was Ambrose Lincoln. Thefact of the matter is, it’s a great looking sterling silver and turquoisebracelet that would make for a great addition to anyone\'s collection

Size: Inside L. 5\" x W. 5/8\" x Opening 1.5\"Weight: 23gCirca: 1950-60s

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