NATIVE AMERICAN Indian Face pendant necklace made by noted artist Greg thorne pendant is 3"inches tall with bale by1"⅞ wide sterling silver Bali chain is 18"inches long Total weight 52.2grams great addition to your collection Greg thorne

I create handmade American turquoise jewelry as taught to me by Navajo and Pueblo Indians. In my artwork I am focused on earlier technologies that emphasize the human heart expressed solely through the hands use of simple tools. My Southwest style turquoise jewelry can be found at the Sawdust Festival in Laguna Beach, CA.

---Greg Thorne.   a man who believes that our connection to the land is the source of all things good, and who is deeply committed to the values of hard work and community learned during time spent with the Navajo and Hopi back in the early seventies.

“In those days, I lived in Flagstaff, and I worked as a shell runner delivering shells in gunnery sacks from the ships that docked in San Pedro to the Pueblo of Santa Domingo in Arizona, also brought them rocks from the mines for their turquoise jewelry,” he says. 

Greg’s Norwegian and Scottish ancestry is a vital element in his life

“I was a large white man, representing everything the Navajo could have resented, but they embraced me,” Greg adds. “I was entranced by their sense of community, their ceremonials, their celebration of the ‘great mystery’ of life, of the wind and water spirits, the animals, the sense that we are all relatives, that there was no religious dogma they felt the need to impose, just acceptance.