Beautiful Turquoise with hand tamping of the sacred sun. Made by Navajo Artist Mike Calladitto and Stamped MC
Measures 7” no flex
About the artist:
Michael Calladitto
Michael Calladitto is an artisan jewelry maker of Navajo (Diné) heritage, also part Apache. He was raised in the village of Pruitt, New Mexico (on the Navajo reservation) and is of the Meadow-People clan. Michael credits his wholes stamp-designing technique to making his own decorative stamps: “He makes most of the decorative stamps he uses … by hand from the tempered steel of old car engines (piston rods, valve stems).” He often works as part of a husband-and-wife team with Rosita Calladitto. His jewelry is described as “traditional Navajo style jewelry using sterling silver & turquoise with deeply stamped designs.”
