Description
6.5" Mike Bird Romero San Juan and Taos Pueblo Agate and Onyx bracelet, fits up<br>to a 6.5" wrist with no issues.<br><br>Mike Bird-Romero is an accomplished jeweler known for his technical mastery,<br>innovation, and respect for historical techniques and designs. Born in 1946 in<br>San Juan Pueblo, his artistic interests were fostered in a household of<br>creativity. His grandmother Luteria Atencio was a respected potter whose works<br>are in the Smithsonian Institution. His mother Lorencita Bird was an<br>accomplished and well-known Pueblo textile artist and educator. After learning<br>some basic metal-working skills in junior high school, Mike began serious work<br>with metals in the late 1960s, teaching himself from books on the topic and<br>buying some old tools while making others. By the 1980s, Mike had emerged as a<br>major figure in contemporary Native American jewelry making. Selecting only the<br>best, most dramatic materials, Mike became known for bold, sculptural<br>interpretations of traditional designs.<br><br>Although he is largely a self-taught artist, Mike’s work has been influenced<br>both by extensive research into historic Navajo and Pueblo jewelry and by<br>observing great silversmiths who lived near his home including Mark Chee and<br>Julian Lovato. A true student of Pueblo tradition, Mike is inspired by old<br>photographs of Indians wearing historical jewelry. “I am trying to revive the<br>old jewelry,” he explains.<br><br>Mike’s hallmark, two small birds, is found on the back of his pieces.<br><br>Tribal Affiliation<br>San Juan and Taos Pueblo<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.
