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Michael and Rosita Calladito Navajo Sterling silver cuff Bracelet with Wildhorse<br>stone. Very large cuff in perfect condition 2 3/8" wide 6 5/8" including the 1<br>1/8" gap. 106 grams<br><br>MICHAEL & ROSITA CALLADITTO<br>Michael Calladitto is best known for traditional Navajo style jewelry using<br>Sterling Silver & turquoise with deeply stamped designs. He loves working with<br>turquoise and says that the stone make him more creative and skillful at the<br>bench. Michael makes most of the decorative stamps he uses to make his jewelry<br>by hand from the tempered steel of old car engines. Using old parts from piston<br>rods to valve stems, he carefully cuts designs into the steel using tiny files<br>and other tools to produce his personal stamps. Brought up on the reservation in<br>the village of Pruitt, New Mexico and born to the Meadow People Clan, Michael is<br>also part Apache. Raised primarily by his Grandparents, Michael draws<br>inspiration from the same remote and wild places his Grandmother, a<br>well-respected natural healer, took him to when he was young.
