Description
6.5" Jim Poyer Navajo sterling multi-stone channel inlay bracelet. High quality<br>work with no issues. 5.5" plus 1" gap 19mm wide.<br><br>This exciting artist was born in 1954 close to Mexican Water, Arizona and was<br>raised near Red Mesa, south of the Four Corners. His traditional Navajo family<br>upbringing gave him a strong sense of values.<br><br>He attended high school in Shiprock and did well in school. He spent a few<br>semesters at BYU and University of New Mexico before deciding that college was<br>not for him. Instead, he felt the lure of travel and his first love, music. He<br>played lead guitar and sang vocals for nearly two decades, many times as the<br>opening act for well known country performs everywhere from "Canada to Mexico."<br><br>He began to work as an apprentice to renowned jeweler, Jimmie Harrison, when he<br>wasn't on tour. It wasn't long before he began to make jewelry on his own,<br>borrowing the inlay style from Harrison, but creating his own unique Native<br>American designs. This new passion for making jewelry coincided with his desire<br>to quit traveling and stay home with his wife Theresa and their children.<br><br>While his jewelry is sold across the country in fine galleries and museum shops<br>and demand for his work is high, Poyer has resisted the temptation to set up a<br>shop with other people producing his work or to cast the silver and gold for his<br>designs. Every piece is built by hand from sheet silver, wire and natural<br>stones. He enjoys working with turquoise, but is fascinated with the patterns<br>and colors from shells, malachite, jet, coral, sugilite, lapis and other<br>semi-precious stones. Jimmy Poyer is proud of every piece he creates. His<br>greatest pleasure comes from having others enjoy his work.<br><br>He presently lives in Farmington, New Mexico.<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. Most cuff bracelets are shown photographed<br>on a 6" woman's wrist and will include a photo showing the inside circumference<br>where the metal tip meets the number on the tape measure.
