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Felicita Eustace Cochiti (1927-2016) Silver and carved turquoise pin. Gorgeous<br>with no issues, extremely high grade natural American turquoise. Marked or<br>unmarked as shown in pics, weight and other measurements in pics. Sorry but my<br>jewelry is stored in a secure location and cannot be accessed for more pictures,<br>videos, or measurements until sold. If you look at pictures/description your<br>question should be answered. Thank you so much for your time and consideration!<br><br>Felicita was born in 1927 and raised at Cochiti Pueblo. She learned to make<br>traditional pottery and storytellers from her parents. After her marriage during<br>the World War II years, she moved to her husband Ben’s home in Zuni. Ben taught<br>her some basics of jewelry-making. She sold her first ring to legendary Zuni<br>trader C.G. Wallace. Over the years she become and accomplished jeweler in her<br>own right, while developing a large following for her pottery and storytellers.<br>“There are always more orders for my claywork than there’s time to do them,” she<br>said.<br><br>The Eustaces show strong respect for the materials and time-honored processes of<br>their art. Felicita still makes her storytellers the traditional way. Her<br>jewelry features an old family design copyrighted in the early 1960s: a domed,<br>natural leave motif in sterling silver alongside a carved, bezeled and polished<br>turquoise stone. Felicita and Ben have passed their respect for quality on to<br>their 13 children, many of whom create their own pottery and jewelry.<br><br>Daughter Bernadette Eustace says, “My parents told us that if we were going to<br>do jewelry at all, we would have to do it their way, the right way. It wasn’t<br>the designs they were talking about, it was the technical aspects of our work:<br>setting stones, welds, engravings and so on. They were the ones who would be<br>selling these items for us, so they would make sure that a certain standard of<br>quality was being met.”<br><br>All precious metals are tested and guaranteed, any Native American jewelry<br>referred to as Silver or Sterling is guaranteed to be a minimum of 90% (coin)<br>silver and possibly higher content. Anything marked is guaranteed to be what<br>it's marked, most bracelets are photographed on a 6" wrist (non hairy), rings<br>photographed on the appropriate sized finger when possible. With bracelets if<br>the measurement is not given in the description then inside circumference is<br>shown where the metal meets the number on the the cloth tape measure.
