More new work by Lena Boone - one of our favorite carvers from Zuni.   She is always trying out a new material or doing something innovative and interesting:

The fluorite bear at far left is 2.72 inches long and 1.75 inches high.   $75.
The bear of fossilized shell fragments, 3 by 2 inches, is $65.
A color glass bird/eagle.   $33
The badger at left is $36 as is the turtle next to it.
The elongated (2.5 inches) chrysocolla turtle is $48.
The shrew (guardian of the Nadir) is carved from a piece of stone with a vein of Royston turquoise running through it.   $36.
And lastly, a small turquoise turtle for $30.

Calvert Bowannie of Zuni brought these into our Santa Fe store.   His magpies with their heads turned, $48 each, are 2.75 inches long.   Two red birds (the stone appears to be a very fine sandstone or siltstone) are $26 for the one with his head cocked and $24 for the other.   The bison, a figure he does not often carve, is made of a stone the Zunis quarry from Nutria, New Mexico, 2.5 by 4 inches,   $65.

Calvert's brother, Bryston came in with him and brought his classic shell eagles.   The largest is 1.75 by 2.5 inches and the smallest is 1.25 by 2 inches.   In descending order of size, prices are:   $52, $48 and $36.

So many frogs…it must be the exceptionally rainy weather we had in July.

The exuberant speckled serpentine frog leaping on to a mushroom is by Woody Mackel.   1.25 inches high, it’s   $48. (SOLD)
The jet frog inlaid with turquoise polliwogs and lightning with drowsy shell eyes was carved by Andres Lementino.   2.75 inches long.   $48. (SOLD)
The frog who seems to be watching to see what falls from the clouds was made by Bernard Homer Jr of specked serpentine.   $55
In front of Bernard’s frog is a Picasso marble frog carrying a turquoise polliwog, by Verla Lasiloo.   1.25 inches long.   $36. (SOLD)
A bright and happy Zunistone frog with turquoise eyes by Fred Weeka.   1.5 by 1.5 inches.   $38
The angular black marble frog with turquoise spots is by Allison Wallace.   $40
And one I almost never see: a polliwog making the transition to frog. Carved of alabaster with quartz, it as made by Andres Lementino. 2.5 inches long $40.

A kehtahn, a Navajo prayer bundle, traditionally made by a hatathli or 'medicine man'.   (See my book, Spirit in the Stone, for more details on the use of this object.)   It is 4.4 inches long, overall, made of serpentine and wool, by David Yazzie.   $25.