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close up, macro photography, a lizard shape navajo bracelet, the Navajo Native American Indians began making silver jewelry in 1865 when Atsidi Sani, Blacksmith, learned the trade from the Spaniards who were in this area in search for Silver and Gold. The Navajo began making Turquoise Bracelets around the late 1890's after the first Turquoise stone had been set in silver. Around this time Native American Jewelry was not in it's infant stages, but Silver Jewelry made by Native American Indians was. These early Turquoise Bracelets would have been hand forged from ingot or sandcast and would have been more crude in form. Navajo Turquoise Bracelets have become highly valued by Jewelry collectors worldwide, sacred site canyon de Chelly, blazing sunset, immense sky, deep tones, alien landscape