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Native American Art & Jewelry

Tue, Dec 1, 2026 02:00PM EST
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Bidding is now open for our Native American Art & Jewelry auction, Day 1 of our three-day December sale, featuring Navajo, Zuni and Hopi silver and turquoise jewelry, Navajo rugs, Pueblo pottery, baskets, kachinas and carvings. Highlights include a Toby Henderson sterling and turquoise kachina sculpture, a Victor Coochwytewa Hopi overlay cuff and an Anthony Lovato tufa cast cuff, alongside pieces by Lewis Lomay, Peter and Dinah Gasper, Emma Lewis and Lowell Talashoma Sr., and more. Auction is Tuesday, December 1st at 1 PM CST. Local pickup is December 7th, 8th and 9th from 1 to 5 PM at 5263 Edina Industrial Blvd, Edina, MN. Shipping is available on all lots.
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Lot 30

Anthony Lovato Tufa Cast Sterling & Chrysoprase Cuff

Estimate: $400 - $800
Starting Bid
$200

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Marked on the interior of the cuff. 

 

Size: 6" Circumference w/ 1" Opening 

Width: 1 1/2" 

Total Weight: 120.2g

 

Condition: Tarnishing throughout. A minor mark to the stone. Please see images for details. 

 

Artist Bio: Anthony Lovato is a fifth-generation jeweler from Kewa, or Santo Domingo Pueblo, and one of the masters of tufa casting. The method is old and unforgiving. The smith carves the design in reverse into soft tufa stone, pours molten silver into the mold, and the grain of the stone stays in the metal. Lovato learned it chiefly from his grandfather, Santiago Leo Coriz, who had picked it up from a Hopi friend, and he was raised to the bench by his mother, the jeweler and lapidary Mary Coriz Lovato. He also studied at the Institute of American Indian Arts under the sculptor Allan Houser.

Born in 1958, he has made jewelry full time since 1984, working tufa he gathers on the Hopi Reservation. His designs draw on the petroglyphs he studies at ancestral sites, on the horses and buffalo of rock art, and on corn, central to Kewa life and to his own Corn Clan. He also casts canteens and large hollowware jars. In 2023 the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture in Santa Fe named him a Living Treasure and mounted a retrospective of his work. This cuff pairs his tufa cast silver with chrysoprase.

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