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NDN Silver, Indigenous silverwork by Wings, & Wings of the Wind Photography. All content copyright Wings/Aji, all rights reserved. NO USE WITHOUT PERMISSION.

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Also? It's a chance to score some absolutely extraordinary one-of-a-kind Indigenous wearable [and other] art, in styles you won't see anywhere else. And yes, we still need sales urgently. An average of 2 per week for the rest of the year, just to break even.

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Our full current inventory begins by hovering over the menu bars at left here (if they don't show, try turning your device sideways, or use desktop mode): wingssilverwork.com. Best navigation: Hover over "Galleries"> hover over "The Silverwork"> CLICK on chosen category.

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As always, you can order any of them via DM here, via the form here: wingssilverwork.com/contact/, or directly via e-mail at NDNSilverByWings [at] gmail [dot] com.]

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And third and finally, turquoise only, but the SAME turquoise as in the necklace. This is "Stars Too Are Born of Water": wingssilverwork.com/stars-too-ar....

Sterling silver; natural Fox turquoise from the same parcel; dual-strand with end-to-end starburst stampwork:

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Second, one that features both lapis *and* turquoise. This is "When the Water Comes": wingssilverwork.com/when-the-wat....

Sterling silver; a GIANT lapis oval; freeform square of Sleeping Beauty turquoise; all freehand score-, stamp-, and texture work:

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First up, all lapis. This is a personal favorite, "Where Dwells the Water, and the Light": wingssilverwork.com/where-dwells....

Sterling silver textured via freehand stampwork end to end and edge to edge; a fabulous ellipse of royal lapis:

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So today's feature was this masterwork of a necklace, and old-style collar necklace in sterling silver, royal lapis lazuli, and Fox turquoise [plus the beads], called "Buffalo Sky": wingssilverwork.com/buffalo-sky-....

So let's do three cuffs that match it.

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Tonight's inventory thread. [Sorry; I'm struggling tonight. We need sales desperately, but my illness is really weighing me down right now (pain, fatigue, all the million and one things going wrong/can go wrong), and I just don't have it in me right now. Won't be very sunny.]

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Also? It's a chance to score some absolutely extraordinary one-of-a-kind Indigenous wearable [and other] art, in styles you won't see anywhere else. And we need to average two sales a week for the rest of the year just to break even now. We need sales *urgently*.

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Our full current inventory begins by hovering over the menu bars at left here (if they don't show, try turning your device sideways, or use desktop mode): wingssilverwork.com. Best navigation: Hover over "Galleries"> hover over "The Silverwork"> CLICK on chosen category.

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I would dearly love to see this work find its home.

As always, you can order it via DM here, via the form here: wingssilverwork.com/contact/, or directly via e-mail at NDNSilverByWings [at] gmail [dot] com.]

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The beads were all hand-selected specifically for this piece: giant high-grade old orbs of lapis in chrysocolla; ultra-high-grade royal lapis spheres, polished like glass; anchors of natural electric blue turquoise, so pure in color it must be Persian; pyrite and sterling silver accents.

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At either end, lightly beveled squares of royal lapis in violet blue rest in scalloped bezels edged in twisted silver, backings extended into 4 flanges, saw-cut and stamped freehand. All 5 hang from spare, elegant bails, each stamped with a stylized Zia-like motif, a heart at its center.

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Flanking him are two giant, highly domed ovals of natural Fox turquoise from Nevada, electric sky blue marbled with red siltstone matrix and stippled with ivory host rock. They, too, are set into scalloped bezels edges with twisted silver, the scalloped extended backing saw-cut and stamped freehand.

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Here, his great had is cut of royal lapis lazuli in richest cobalt blue, set into a bezel saw-cut, scalloped, and stamped by hand to create his curly mane, the stone edged with twisted silver.

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At the center of the 5 pendants is a focal in what's known as a shield cut — but we couldn't see anything other than our Elder Brother, Buffalo. [Don't yap at me about "bison" v. "buffalo"; both English terms and "definitions" are entirely colonial, and we use what our ancestors used.]

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Pendants are sterling silver; royal lapis lazuli; and natural Fox turquoise. Beads are high-grade old lapis lazuli in chrysocolla; ultra-high-grade royal lapis lazuli; high-grade blue turquoise (likely Persian); iron pyrite; and sterling silver.

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Today's featured work, and it is a masterwork by any measure, is an old-school collar necklace, a traditional style updated for contemporary wear.

It's called "Buffalo Sky": wingssilverwork.com/buffalo-sky-....

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Now posted at The NDN Silver Blog, it's a masterwork for the summer season and its buffalo sky, a reminder of the gifts that it bestows in the face of a world bent beneath a destructive onslaught now: wingssilverwork.com/the-storm-is....

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Today's NDN Silver Insta: www.instagram.com/p/C9QX4sISNE....

Follow us at: www.instagram.com/wingsndnsilv....

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This is such beautiful work. I have a couple of pieces, and they reveal themselves overtime. if you and your budget can accommodate a purchase, go for it. This is not consumption; this is solidarity, witness, and celebration.

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It really does, LOL. But thank you ❤️. Normally he warns me before I get to the doorway, but he was busy and forgot, and I didn't realize until too late. 😖

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Also? It's a chance to score some absolutely extraordinary one-of-a-kind Indigenous wearable [and other] art, in styles you won't see anywhere else. And as I said, we're going to need to bring in an average of two sales per week every week for the rest of the year, just to break even.

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Our full current inventory begins by hovering over the menu bars at left here (if they don't show, try turning your device sideways, or use desktop mode): wingssilverwork.com. Best navigation: Hover over "Galleries"> hover over "The Silverwork"> CLICK on chosen category.

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And finally, a spectacularly seasonal pair, "Dry Lightning": wingssilverwork.com/dry-lightnin....

Sterling silver; old metallic glass trade beads; dumortierite; Ethiopian silver; impression jasper; Indonesian silver; blue spiderweb turquoise:

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And why not a few more at much lower price points? From his gemstone bead series, this is "Rare Blue Moons": wingssilverwork.com/rare-blue-mo....

Sterling silver; lapis lazuli; old amber; white pearl (likely fashion pearl); bronzed metal; olivella-shell heishi:

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The first of tonight's additional pairs is one made with old-style butterfly conchas, called "Floating Azure": wingssilverwork.com/floating-azu....

Sterling silver; lapis lazuli [neither royal nor denim, just regular lapis]:

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Anyway. Tonight's inventory selections. Earrings! Blue! Still haven't decided how far to extend that. Anyway, let's go:

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If I'm more typo-addled than usual, the inability to breathe is probably why.

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Ugh. My chest hurts. I was doing evening chores outside, and I didn't realize that Wings had sprayed bug spray, and I casually waltzed back into the studio . . . and my airway promptly closed up shop. It hasn't recovered yet.

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Also? It's a chance to score some absolutely extraordinary one-of-a-kind Indigenous wearable [and other] art, in styles you won't see anywhere else. And we still need sales urgently. I'll need to bring in roughly 2 per week, EVERY week, for the rest of the year just to break even.

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Our full current inventory begins by hovering over the menu bars at left here (if they don't show, try turning your device sideways, or use desktop mode): wingssilverwork.com. Best navigation: Hover over "Galleries"> hover over "The Silverwork"> CLICK on chosen category.

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As always, you can order any Wings's work, from images to silverwork to other art, via DM here, via the form here: wingssilverwork.com/contact/, or directly via e-mail at NDNSilverByWings [at] gmail [dot] com.]

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These are large round cabs set simply into plain bezels, edged with twisted silver on an extended backing. The oxidation makes the stormy blues pop, and they're my personal favorite.

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At center sit oval sodalite cabochons in stormy shades of cornflower blue, matched but not identical in color, marking them as untreated.

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This is one of Wings's old traditional designs, one that evokes the Eye of Spirit in a radiant Art Deco style. They're saw-cut, upper and lower flared ends scalloped, and the deep scored rays and stampwork all wrought freehand.

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The third image is of deep indigo mammatus clouds, and this was shot near day's end: also unusual, albeit more common now, their gentle arcs deepening into thunderclouds, the kind that can and do spiral into a vortex.

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The second is also shot from our deck, but later in the morning: of cumulus clouds, ruffled and shirred, the kind that can dissipate into clear skies or coalesce into a powerful storm. [No, you have to go to the post to see them; I don't post his here.]

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The first photo looks more like early October here. He took this at dawn, having just stepped outside onto our deck, facing east to the sunrise. It looks like fall, but our usual patterns no longer apply; we've had such fiery sunrises all spring and even into summer this year.

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Wings took them all in digital format: the first at the end of August in 2021; the second near July's end in 2022; and the third on the first day of June, 2021.

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This week's edition consists of three related photos linked by two works of wearable art. The photos all share a theme, illustrating the shifting of the summer skies here, but all were shot entirely independently of each other.

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