Artist/Tribe: Fred Peters (Navajo)

Born in 1960, Fred Peters is a Navajo Artist from Gallup, NM. He used to work for different manufacturing companies, so he has lots of different styles of jewelry. His work is really clean and mostly of the traditional style.

Stone: Turquoise Mountain Turquoise

Turquoise Mountain turquoise from the 1970’s is light-to-high blue with both webbed and non-webbed matrix. “Birdseye” describes stones from this mine that show areas of light blue circled with darker blue matrix, resembling the eye of a bird. Even though this peak is part of the Kingman Mine, it is considered a “classic” mine in its own right because the turquoise is so different in appearance.