Collection: Jerry Whagado Apache Jewelry

Apaches are usually not silversmiths. As a matter of fact, Hopi overlay style jewelry of this high quality is quite unusual but to see it made celebrating the Apache culture is exceedingly rare. I know of no other Apache that can do this. The answer to this enigma lies in the fact that Jerry Whagado is part Hopi and learned his silversmith skills years ago (in the late 1960's early 1970's) at the Hopi Guild under the tutelage of legendary, Fred Kabotie. Notice the fine incising on the lower layer of Silver and Jerry's Overlay Apache Crown (Spirit) Dancers is simply beautiful art. Jerry Whagado captured the very essence of Crown Dancers / Mountain Spirit Dancers in motion.