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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 27

Vintage Lewis Lomay Hopi Sterling Silver Cuff

Estimate: $300 - $500
Starting Bid
$150

Bid Increments

Price Bid Increment
$0 $5
$50 $10
$250 $25
$1,000 $50
$2,000 $100
$4,000 $250
$10,000 $500
$20,000 $1,000
$50,000 $2,500
$100,000 $5,000
$500,000 $10,000

Marked on the interior of the cuff. 

 

Size: 6 1/2" Circumference w/ 3/4" Opening 

Width: 1 1/4" 

Total Weight: 38.7g

 

Condition: Minor scratches to the surface. Minor tarnishing. Please see images for details. 

 

Artist Bio: Lewis Lomay was born Lomayesva at Old Oraibi on Hopi's Third Mesa and shortened the name when he began working in Santa Fe. He studied painting at the Albuquerque Indian School and learned metalwork at the Santa Fe Indian School under the Navajo silversmith Ambrose Roanhorse, who started his students on copper and brass before letting them near silver. He then spent many years at the Thunderbird Shop, the Santa Fe studio of the Italian-born silversmith Frank Patania, and later worked at the Rainbow Man.

That mix of training shows in the work. Lomay is remembered for jewelry of clean, modern design with a European influence, in fabricated silver and overlay set with turquoise and coral, and for the snake that runs through every version of his hallmark, alone on his early pieces and paired with an L or LL later on. He worked from the 1930s until his death in 1996 and taught his children Irvin and Peggy Lomay, who carried the work into a second generation, and a third through his grandson James Rawn Lomay. This cuff carries his mark on the interior.

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