Yurok & Karuk

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Finely shaped and polished abalone shell and pinenut jewelry traditional to California's northwest coast people, done in the multi-strand style, prized for their musical sound when danced.

Yurok Dance Necklace - 3 strands (longest 34") buckskin neck pad.

Yurok Old-Style Dance Necklace - 3 strands (longest 34") buckskin neck.

Karuk

20 Stand Dentalium shell, Beargrass, cedar berries, abalone and glass beads.

 Bradley Marshall (Yurok)

Cut abalone with Cobalt glass beads.

Melissa Leal (Chumash)

3 Stand Abalone.

Melissa Leal (Chumash)

3 Strand Old style dentalium shell and glass beads.

Melissa Leal (Chumash)

5 Strand Old style dentalium shell, abalone, California brown olivella shell

and glass beads.

Melissa Leal (Chumash)

Single stand Abalone.

Michael Rogers
Paiute

A resident of the Bishop Paiute Reservation in Inyo County, eastern California, Michael Rogers has been perfecting his jewelry-making art since the early 1970's. Now well recognized among the leading Native American jewelry artists working today, he has exhibited at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., the Santa Fe Market and in leading galleries and shows across the country. Selections of Rogers' work in sterling silver, gold, turquoise, jade, and other semi precious stones is a regular feature at PWT.