Vintage Navajo Tsosie and Mary Taylor Bolo of Turquoise and Ironwood

This is one of the best bolos that Navajo artists Tsosie and Mary Taylor have ever made!

You'll find that it's reminiscent of early Navajo modernist pieces like those done at the White Hogan by Kenneth Begay. There are truly outstanding design elements in this bolo worth pointing out. Notice the interplay between the inlaid ironwood and section and the silver section. There's just a little more ironwood than silver across the face of the bolo in order to give it that delicious dose of asymmetry. 

Next, notice the wonderful natural turquoise stone with its stippled pattern of matrix. Do you see how the Tsosies recreated that stippling in the silver? It's a tiny detail, but it's superb! 

The silver work finishes with very slightly diagonally placed parallel lines contrasting with zig zag lines representing lightening. So good! Of course, all this design in the silver is elegantly balanced by the plain section of wood.

Isn't it fun when you take the time to really examine a piece of Navajo jewelry design!

The bolo keeper measures 3" x 2" and is signed. It comes from the collection of an artist with a great eye for composition. He had a limited number of pieces in his Native American jewelry collection, but the examples that he had were top notch.