One-of-a-Kind Native American Jewelry at Toh-Atin Gallery
Toh-Atin Gallery offers amazing, one-of-a-kind Native American art, rugs, weavings, and jewelry. We are located at 145 W 9th Street in Durango, CO 81301. For more information, call 970-247-8277 or visit us online at toh-atin.com.
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For over three centuries, the Navajo people of Arizona and Northern New Mexico have tended their sheep and worked with the wool to weave beautiful blankets and rugs.
Living on the High Plateau and surrounded by the Four Sacred Mountains, the Navajo women invoke the spirit of Spider Woman, who taught them to weave.
They carefully card and spin the wool, creating yarns that are sometimes dyed and sometimes left the natural color of the sheep.
The loom is carefully and reverently warped. The weft threads are slowly threaded between these warps and pressed together with the gentle pounding of a wooden comb. Slowly a pattern will emerge from the weaver’s mind to become a part of the tapestry.
Weaving on the upright Navajo loom is a slow process that cannot be hurried. It is not uncommon for a small Navajo rug to be on the loom for several months.
Toh-Atin Gallery - An Authentic Native American Jewelry Store
Toh-Atin Gallery has a wide selection of authentic Native American jewelry, art, pottery, rugs, weavings, and more. We are located at 145 W 9th St in Durango, CO 81301. For more information, call (970) 247-8277 or visit
Southwest Sculpture Creation
Toh-Atin Gallery is a family owned business in Durango, CO offering fine art from Native American artists throughout the area. Since 1957, Toh-Atin Gallery has developed strong relationships built on trust, with artists throughout the area. As one of the most respected art galleries in the area, Toh-Atin offers a wide selection of authentic Native American jewelry, Pueblo pottery, Indian rugs, and Navajo weavings. Our inventory is always carefully selected to bring you the finest quality Native American art available.
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Toh Atin Gallery Navajo Rug Sale, NHMU
Navajo Rug Sale at the Museum is happening Saturday June 10th at the Natural History Museum of Utah
Kinlání - Durango, CO
This video is a supplemental resource for an interactive lesson developed by Navajo Language & Culture department at Bloomfield School District in Bloomfield, New Mexico. For more info contact us +1 (877) 511-2342 or email info@nativeinnovation.com
CLASSIC Mercy Hospital - Durango CO
Take a ride in a vintage ambulance to Durango's state of the art 1983 hospital!
Antique Navajo rug comes in the mail
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Pendleton puts Durango on the Map
Pendleton Woolen Mills has selected two rare weavings from The Durango Collection to replicate into its world-famous wool blankets for its Preservation Series.
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Colorado Trails Ranch: Durango, Colorado
As seen on RusticVacations.com...An excellent choice for a family vacation with scenic horseback riding and great fly fishing all just a short drive outside of Durango, Colorado.
Native American Indian Jewelry: How to Identify Genuine Lander Turquoise in Indian Jewelry
Native American jewelry expert Dr. Mark Sublette of Medicine Man Gallery with 25 years experience in the Indian art business gives tips on how to identify genuine early turquoise in Navajo jewelry. Excellent tutorial for beginning to advanced collectors on the characteristics one looks for when buying Native American old pawn jewelry with turquoise.
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Native American Indian Jewelry: How to Identify Genuine Lander Turquoise in Indian Jewelry
Hi, today I want to talk to you about turquoise: this kind of stuff. Specific mines are very important to understand because this has a lot to do with how we, dealers, go about pricing things. When I look at a piece of jewelry, and it's brought in to me, one of the first things I do (if it has turquoise in it), is to take my loop out and really examine it. There are a lot of good reasons to do this.
One is that you can see cracks, or if it has matrix, you may see that there really isn't a crack, but it's just the line of the matrix, and this makes a big difference. A stone that's broken is not going to be worth as much, (than) if it's just a matrix fissure. So, look at it closely. If you don't have a loop, at least get it under good light.
The most (probably) valuable turquoise today is called Lander. Lander turquoise comes from Northern Nevada, and it is an amazing-looking turquoise. It has very dark, deep blue (almost to black), with lots of matrix. The problem is there's just not much of it. Lander was found (the original) mined in 1973 by two sisters, Rita Hapgood and her sister Marilyn. They took their two boys up, and they went out looking for turquoise. They heard there was turquoise in Nevada, and they wanted to go find themselves a mine.
The story goes, is that they actually used a Ouija board (which said), “Go up the hill and start looking,” and they did, and then one of the kids found a little teeny stone with this beautiful brown-black kind of matrix, and that actually turned out to be Lander turquoise. It's also what we call a hat mine. A hat mine is a mine that is so small that you could throw your hat on it and cover the entire mine, and in this case, it really was.
There was only a hundred and eight pounds found of this turquoise, and it didn't start coming out till about 1974. Rita sold her mine claim to another group, who really knew how to go ahead and develop the mine, in 1974. So, between 1974 and 1977 (we’ll say) a lot of that great turquoise really got into the market.
So, one of the things you have to realize if somebody is telling you its Lander turquoise; remember there's a very small amount, and it probably isn't genuine Lander, unless you have a great provenance, or you have somebody who knows that it's Lander turquoise. If you have a dealer who’s been in the business and is going to guarantee it’s Lander, then that's fine – not a problem. You have pieces like (Charles Loloma did this) wonderful bracelet with a huge chunk of Lander.
It makes sense; he was a well-known artist, who could afford the turquoise, which was even expensive at that time. It's really been in the last ten years or even less (really in the last five years, I would say), that Lander has started to go up so much in value. People have really understood that this is a rare type of turquoise, and that it really has a great essence beyond just the jewelry.
So, it's important when you're looking at Native American jewelry, and if you think it is a stone of importance, that you do a little research, and if it's genuine Lander, well, you've hit the jackpot just like Rita Hapgood.
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Navajo Natural Gem Grade Kingman Turquoise Necklace - Albert Jake
Navajo weaver Marlowe Katoney speaks at SAR
Originally trained as a painter, Navajo pictorial weaver Marlowe Katoney incorporates his painterly aesthetics into his weavings. Since arriving at SAR in September 2015, Katoney has been exploring the human figure, specifically the Pietà, as both subject matter and composition. In the boardroom of the School for Advanced Research on November 19, 2015 Marlowe spoke about his experience as the 2015 Rollin and Mary Ella King Native Artist Fellow.
2016 Navajo World Canyon de Chelly Seminar
Experience a Cultural Explorations Program with Crow Canyon Archaeological Center for a unique perspective on archaeology, American Indian culture and the global context of human history. Join us for a seminar in the United States or internationally. crowcanyon.org
Calling All Cars: History of Dallas Eagan / Homicidal Hobo / The Drunken Sailor
The radio show Calling All Cars hired LAPD radio dispacher Jesse Rosenquist to be the voice of the dispatcher. Rosenquist was already famous because home radios could tune into early police radio frequencies. As the first police radio dispatcher presented to the public ear, his was the voice that actors went to when called upon for a radio dispatcher role.
The iconic television series Dragnet, with LAPD Detective Joe Friday as the primary character, was the first major media representation of the department. Real LAPD operations inspired Jack Webb to create the series and close cooperation with department officers let him make it as realistic as possible, including authentic police equipment and sound recording on-site at the police station.
Due to Dragnet's popularity, LAPD Chief Parker became, after J. Edgar Hoover, the most well known and respected law enforcement official in the nation. In the 1960s, when the LAPD under Chief Thomas Reddin expanded its community relations division and began efforts to reach out to the African-American community, Dragnet followed suit with more emphasis on internal affairs and community policing than solving crimes, the show's previous mainstay.
Several prominent representations of the LAPD and its officers in television and film include Adam-12, Blue Streak, Blue Thunder, Boomtown, The Closer, Colors, Crash, Columbo, Dark Blue, Die Hard, End of Watch, Heat, Hollywood Homicide, Hunter, Internal Affairs, Jackie Brown, L.A. Confidential, Lakeview Terrace, Law & Order: Los Angeles, Life, Numb3rs, The Shield, Southland, Speed, Street Kings, SWAT, Training Day and the Lethal Weapon, Rush Hour and Terminator film series. The LAPD is also featured in the video games Midnight Club II, Midnight Club: Los Angeles, L.A. Noire and Call of Juarez: The Cartel.
The LAPD has also been the subject of numerous novels. Elizabeth Linington used the department as her backdrop in three different series written under three different names, perhaps the most popular being those novel featuring Det. Lt. Luis Mendoza, who was introduced in the Edgar-nominated Case Pending. Joseph Wambaugh, the son of a Pittsburgh policeman, spent fourteen years in the department, using his background to write novels with authentic fictional depictions of life in the LAPD. Wambaugh also created the Emmy-winning TV anthology series Police Story. Wambaugh was also a major influence on James Ellroy, who wrote several novels about the Department set during the 1940s and 1950s, the most famous of which are probably The Black Dahlia, fictionalizing the LAPD's most famous cold case, and L.A. Confidential, which was made into a film of the same name. Both the novel and the film chronicled mass-murder and corruption inside and outside the force during the Parker era. Critic Roger Ebert indicates that the film's characters (from the 1950s) represent the choices ahead for the LAPD: assisting Hollywood limelight, aggressive policing with relaxed ethics, and a straight arrow approach.
Our Miss Brooks: Another Day, Dress / Induction Notice / School TV / Hats for Mother's Day
Our Miss Brooks is an American situation comedy starring Eve Arden as a sardonic high school English teacher. It began as a radio show broadcast from 1948 to 1957. When the show was adapted to television (1952--56), it became one of the medium's earliest hits. In 1956, the sitcom was adapted for big screen in the film of the same name.
Connie (Constance) Brooks (Eve Arden), an English teacher at fictional Madison High School.
Osgood Conklin (Gale Gordon), blustery, gruff, crooked and unsympathetic Madison High principal, a near-constant pain to his faculty and students. (Conklin was played by Joseph Forte in the show's first episode; Gordon succeeded him for the rest of the series' run.) Occasionally Conklin would rig competitions at the school--such as that for prom queen--so that his daughter Harriet would win.
Walter Denton (Richard Crenna, billed at the time as Dick Crenna), a Madison High student, well-intentioned and clumsy, with a nasally high, cracking voice, often driving Miss Brooks (his self-professed favorite teacher) to school in a broken-down jalopy. Miss Brooks' references to her own usually-in-the-shop car became one of the show's running gags.
Philip Boynton (Jeff Chandler on radio, billed sometimes under his birth name Ira Grossel); Robert Rockwell on both radio and television), Madison High biology teacher, the shy and often clueless object of Miss Brooks' affections.
Margaret Davis (Jane Morgan), Miss Brooks' absentminded landlady, whose two trademarks are a cat named Minerva, and a penchant for whipping up exotic and often inedible breakfasts.
Harriet Conklin (Gloria McMillan), Madison High student and daughter of principal Conklin. A sometime love interest for Walter Denton, Harriet was honest and guileless with none of her father's malevolence and dishonesty.
Stretch (Fabian) Snodgrass (Leonard Smith), dull-witted Madison High athletic star and Walter's best friend.
Daisy Enright (Mary Jane Croft), Madison High English teacher, and a scheming professional and romantic rival to Miss Brooks.
Jacques Monet (Gerald Mohr), a French teacher.
Our Miss Brooks was a hit on radio from the outset; within eight months of its launch as a regular series, the show landed several honors, including four for Eve Arden, who won polls in four individual publications of the time. Arden had actually been the third choice to play the title role. Harry Ackerman, West Coast director of programming, wanted Shirley Booth for the part, but as he told historian Gerald Nachman many years later, he realized Booth was too focused on the underpaid downside of public school teaching at the time to have fun with the role.
Lucille Ball was believed to have been the next choice, but she was already committed to My Favorite Husband and didn't audition. Chairman Bill Paley, who was friendly with Arden, persuaded her to audition for the part. With a slightly rewritten audition script--Osgood Conklin, for example, was originally written as a school board president but was now written as the incoming new Madison principal--Arden agreed to give the newly-revamped show a try.
Produced by Larry Berns and written by director Al Lewis, Our Miss Brooks premiered on July 19, 1948. According to radio critic John Crosby, her lines were very feline in dialogue scenes with principal Conklin and would-be boyfriend Boynton, with sharp, witty comebacks. The interplay between the cast--blustery Conklin, nebbishy Denton, accommodating Harriet, absentminded Mrs. Davis, clueless Boynton, scheming Miss Enright--also received positive reviews.
Arden won a radio listeners' poll by Radio Mirror magazine as the top ranking comedienne of 1948-49, receiving her award at the end of an Our Miss Brooks broadcast that March. I'm certainly going to try in the coming months to merit the honor you've bestowed upon me, because I understand that if I win this two years in a row, I get to keep Mr. Boynton, she joked. But she was also a hit with the critics; a winter 1949 poll of newspaper and magazine radio editors taken by Motion Picture Daily named her the year's best radio comedienne.
For its entire radio life, the show was sponsored by Colgate-Palmolive-Peet, promoting Palmolive soap, Lustre Creme shampoo and Toni hair care products. The radio series continued until 1957, a year after its television life ended.