Jeanette Dale Creates a Masterpiece!

Tuesday, November 28, 2023 6:20 PM

Jeanette Dale Creates a Masterpiece!

Over the years, we have become accustomed to Jeanette Dale creating amazing jewelry. She puts her entire soul into crafting beautiful work, small and large.

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Coral from the Mediterranean, Turquoise from Persia, Silver from America

Coral became a popular material for Native artists to work with hundreds of years ago when European Traders began to bring it to the Southwest as a trade item. Early on, the small pieces of coral were drilled and strung on necklaces made of drilled shell beads and, usually, pieces of turquoise.

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Deep Red Coral in a Classic Navajo Bracelet

Saturday, October 17, 2020 6:10 PM

Deep Red Coral in a Classic Navajo Bracelet

liked coral, in combination with turquoise and by itself, in Native American Jewelry. And American Indians have felt the same way since they began trading for coral with Europeans 600 years ago.In the 1800s Hopi dancers were documented to have worn jewelry containing coral.

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Coral and Turquoise Necklace

Tuesday, January 16, 2018 3:01 PM

Coral and Turquoise Necklace

The coral you find in jewelry really isn’t. It is a calcium carbonate skeleton that is produced by coral polyps that live in clean, rich tropical and subtropical oceans.


Coral has been used for jewelry back some 25-30,000 years. Many people around the Mediterranean, where most of the deep red coral was originally found, used it for jewelry. The Egyptians and Romans place high value on it.

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