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sz7.5 Steve Wikviya LaRance Hopi Tufa cast ring. No issues.
Master Hopi silversmith Steve Wikviya LaRance was born 1958 in Phoenix, Arizona
but spent part of his childhood with his grandparents in the Hopi village of
Moencopi. At Hopi he learned the traditional Hopi arts and those ceremonial
designs are a part of his distinctive tufa cast jewelry today. Steve says "When
we create art, we share a piece of ourselves with the world."
Steve’s distinctive, tufa-cast jewelry uses traditional Native symbols, like
petroglyphs, dragonflies, kachina figures and water signs, in creative
contemporary ways. His designs are inspired by historical cast jewelry and other
old techniques.
After becoming a painter, then a sculptor, he now does jewelry that is
beautifully designed and impeccably executed. He gathers the semi-hard volcanic
tufa from the Hopi Reservation. "I was able to find the site where Charles
Loloma used to get his tufa," he says, happily. It is finer-grained than that
found elsewhere. Constantly seeking the best is a signature concept of Steve
LaRance and his jewelry.
