[Broken Arrow]

Gold Prices are higher than ever. Too late to buy I guess.

Think I'll better buy some collectors guns like a Colt Lightning, Colt Burgess in fine, shootable condition.

Still have some coins, won a Competition or as a gift.

[Broken Arrow]

Originally Posted by OLChemist

I can't get the bolo tips I'd like the best. They're Native-made from a trading post in Gallup. They're piece-work and I suspect a lot of their bench jewelers are under the Navajo Nation stay at home orders and haven't been able to get stuff to market.

Sigh, found some trading post s of gallup on the net. What I can see, in Germany there is no such trading post for that art.

[OLChemist]

BA, here a couple of my favorite places to go to look at jewelry:

Winfield Trading; Vanderwagon, NM; between Gallup and Zuni. Make sure you take the turquoise vault virtual tour. I spent four hours shopping there last Oct.:

Winfield Trading


Waddell Gallery; Scottsdale, AZ. Waddells tends toward modern, high end.

Waddell Gallery


Gallup Trading; Gallup, NM.

https://galluptrading.com


Palace Jeweler's; Santa Fe, NM. They're the Plaza branch of the Canyon Road Manitou Galleries.

Palace Jewelers

[ches]

They may go ahead and have this one:

POWWOW6/13/20ENGLISH, INDIANA 2 hrs 19 min
JUNE 13, 14, 2020
14th ANNUAL SYCAMORE SPRINGS NATIVE AMERICAN GATHERING"
DESCENDANTS OF THE EASTERN WOODLAND INDIANS
SYCAMORE SPRINGS PARK
717 WEST TUNNEL HILL ROAD
ENGLISH, CRAWFORD COUNTY, INDIANA
Drum: People's Medicine Drum
'IKE ROA Hawaiian Hula Dancers (TENTATIVE)
MORE INFORMATION FORTH COMING

[wardancer]

Originally Posted by ches

They may go ahead and have this one:

POWWOW6/13/20ENGLISH, INDIANA 2 hrs 19 min
JUNE 13, 14, 2020
14th ANNUAL SYCAMORE SPRINGS NATIVE AMERICAN GATHERING"
DESCENDANTS OF THE EASTERN WOODLAND INDIANS
SYCAMORE SPRINGS PARK
717 WEST TUNNEL HILL ROAD
ENGLISH, CRAWFORD COUNTY, INDIANA
Drum: People's Medicine Drum
'IKE ROA Hawaiian Hula Dancers (TENTATIVE)
MORE INFORMATION FORTH COMING

I won't be there ! LOL

[Broken Arrow]

Originally Posted by wardancer

I won't be there ! LOL

Think that is a little bit early to open up such events.

We have just an outbreak of 107 infected after a Baptist church service and abbout 20 new infections after a private dining party in a reopened restaurant.

Stay safe and healthy.

[OLChemist]

Ches, you may know this:

For piecework like that, the jeweler gets a flat rate from the company buying the work for resale. Generally, they provide the silver. The end buyer pays a price which is mostly fabrication cost but is also based on the daily silver spot. Usually for these complex findings, the fabrication cost so dominates the price that it takes many dollar changes silver price to move the cost of the finding more than a couple pennies.

In NM and AZ, where the Native jewelry market is huge, there are small workshops that employ Native jewelers to make the seam beads, hogan beads, blossoms and najas sold in places that cater to the Native 'smith. I had a friend who worked in one in Nob Hill while he was in school. He made a zillion hogan beads.

[ches]

Originally Posted by OLChemist

Ches, you may know this:

For piecework like that, the jeweler gets a flat rate from the company buying the work for resale. Generally, they provide the silver. The end buyer pays a price which is mostly fabrication cost but is also based on the daily silver spot. Usually for these complex findings, the fabrication cost so dominates the price that it takes many dollar changes silver price to move the cost of the finding more than a couple pennies.

In NM and AZ, where the Native jewelry market is huge, there are small workshops that employ Native jewelers to make the seam beads, hogan beads, blossoms and najas sold in places that cater to the Native 'smith. I had a friend who worked in one in Nob Hill while he was in school. He made a zillion hogan beads.

LOL Did not know any if that! It is all very interesting.

[ches]

Originally Posted by Broken Arrow

Think that is a little bit early to open up such events.

We have just an outbreak of 107 infected after a Baptist church service and abbout 20 new infections after a private dining party in a reopened restaurant.

Stay safe and healthy.

Wardancer, you would certainly be welcome. I will check as the time approaches and see if it is still on.

[wardancer]

Someday , maybe , when the world is back under control ! LOL I'm really trying to stay out of the public eye !

[ches]

The KY governor opened up the state to taking trips. I want to go to the woods awful bad. Been a long long time. Check the easement road and cut saplings out of the parking area and the shooting range and the main two logging trails. I may leave all the others that I previously cleared grown up. It is nice to have them cleared, but more natural for Eastern Woodland to have the trees reclaim them.

[Broken Arrow]

Originally Posted by wardancer

Someday , maybe , when the world is back under control ! LOL I'm really trying to stay out of the public eye !

Hm, I think virtual you are still in the public eye. Would be a shame if you get lost.

[Broken Arrow]

Originally Posted by ches

I want to go to the woods awful bad.

Check the easement road and cut saplings out of the parking area and the shooting range and the main two logging trails. I may leave all the others that I previously cleared grown up. It is nice to have them cleared, but more natural for Eastern Woodland to have the trees reclaim them.

In the Woods, where you can stay alone or at distance, that will be safe. Talked yesterday to my doctor.

Washing Hands, wearing amsk and keeping distance than the Risk isn't to great, else we would have had masses of infections. On June 3. the schools will open more though unvclear how far and we will need the teachers above 60 and of the not so risky groups.

One third up to one half of all teachers are 60+.

[ches]

BA ? Are young people going into education and teaching as a profession?

[Broken Arrow]

Originally Posted by ches

BA ? Are young people going into education and teaching as a profession?

Not enough and often with the wrong subject. Not enough teacher for math, Engineering, etc. Not enough for elementary School.

[wardancer]

Originally Posted by Broken Arrow

Hm, I think virtual you are still in the public eye. Would be a shame if you get lost.

To help you understand......Facebook is a big place ! My beautiful wife has Facebook and about 4-5000 friends and followers. I do not ! However , my picture made the front page of several newspapers around the country , back when I was dancing all the time. Next thing you know my pic was everywhere , powwow fliers , bumper stickers , and more that a few nutcases used my pic as their profile pics on Facebook. Suddenly my wife is inundated with questions about why I'm in France and Germany among many other places in other countries and in the states .Guys claiming to be me ! So case by case my wife tracked these folks down and confronted them and made them take them down. I quit dancing big powwows. I don't allow anyone to take my pic. And now when I dance I don't paint up , don't wear my hat , try not to be noticed ! I prefer to be lost in the crowd !Besides that , I'm older now and like the quiet life.

[OLChemist]

He forgot to include that his pic has a prominent place on my living room mantle. LOL

[ches]

WD that is really nice. I like what you said. To dance is to pray, to pray is to heal.

[wardancer]

Although I agree with that , I didn't say it or have any prior knowledge of it until a friend sent it to me ! Therein lies the problem !Here's the one my friend sent , is there another ?

[wardancer]

Originally Posted by OLChemist

He forgot to include that his pic has a prominent place on my living room mantle. LOL

I try to stay humble !