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Alvin Yellowhorse and Family
Lupton Jewelry Studio with Student
The Enduring Allure of Turquoise

Alvin Yellowhorse a 30-year-old Navajo Jeweler, might have his Yellowhorse Inlay Shop on the reservation, a few dusty miles West of Gallup, but he's on top of the trend. As a teenager he learned the basics of the Silversmith's trade from his father, who sold his jewelry from a table set up alongside Old Route 66 near the New Mexico-Arizona border.

The Artbook Artist Biographies
Should Alvin Yellowhorse ever require inspiration, he doesn't have very far to go. The prehistoric petroglyphs of rock-painting ancestors are drawn upon the canyon walls a short walk behind the Lupton, Arizona studio he shares with brother, Brian, in the heart of Navajo Land: "I often walk out here to the petroglyphs and try to imagine their stories to bring life in my pieces."
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