Large rectangular White Buffalo stone cuff bracelet

Handcrafted by Navajo artist Albert Jake. This bracelet features a rectangular stone pattern of graduated sizes of large to small starting in the center and moving outward. The artist has added traditional stamping at the ends of the bracelet. The simple design has its focus on the White Buffalo stones. It is unusual to see a bracelet this size with the rectangular stones ! It has a medium weight and is comfortable. 

Material: White Buffalo stone & sterling silver

Measuremnts: width: 1-1/8" - Inside measurements: 6-1/4" with a opening of 1-3/8"

*This is a large bracelet that will fit wrist sizes from 7-1/2" to 8"

Stone: The White Buffalo stone originates from the Tonopah Nevada area found in the same general veins as Dry Creek turquoise but has no copper content.  Considering this fact, it should therefore NOT be called “white, turquoise” as it does not have the same chemical composition as turquoise, which is a copper phosphate.  There is no copper to cause blue color or iron to cause green color.  It is a mostly clean white calcite/quartz mix with black chert inclusions (matrix) that are more sharply defined as opposed to being smutty.  The better stones have clear delineations of black and white.

Artist: Albert Jake: was born in 1959 in the Zuni Pueblo south of Gallup, New Mexico.  He learned silversmithing from his parents. He specializes in traditional set stones and cluster jewelry with intricate stamp work. He has been smithing since 1987.  He also creates sand-paintings and makes pottery. During the summers he works as a forest fire fighter. He lives with his wife and two daughters today in Rahmah, New Mexico, near the Zuni Pueblo.