Toh-Atin Gallery Blog
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In our blog, we share all information about Native American jewelry, Navajo rugs, Pueblo pottery, Kachina dolls, baskets, masks, paintings, sculpture, fetishes, and more. Our goal is to help you to learn about the Native cultures of the Southwest, discover new artists and art forms, and share our love of Native American art and culture.
Toh-Atin Gallery Blog
1M ago
Before we opened our gallery in Durango, we used to buy and sell rugs and jewelry out of my father’s office in his Pepsi Cola. We were lucky to meet and work with many well-known and accomplished artists. Many of these people became, famous for their work. ..read more
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1M ago
"I watched Martha and Gene making jewelry, and they helped me to get started. Tommy encouraged me, too!" she says ..read more
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1M ago
The two premier celebrations of Native Americans in the Southwest bring thousands of people to Gallup and Santa Fe during August of every year. The two events run back to back; both are wonderful and entirely different. The Gallup Inter-tribal Indian Ceremonial ended on Sunday, and I want to share a little about it with you ..read more
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1M ago
In May of 2014, right after the Iron Horse Bicycle Race in Durango, I was in the Gallery when Tommy Singer walked in wearing his motorcycle leathers. I had known Tommy for over thirty years and had sold his jewelry since the 1970s ..read more
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1M ago
Over the years, we have become accustomed to Jeanette Dale creating amazing jewelry. She puts her entire soul into crafting beautiful work, small and large ..read more
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1M ago
2023 was the fortieth year Toh-Atin Gallery has been located in our building on Ninth Street in Durango. It seems like it was just a few years ago that we moved into our new space ..read more
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1M ago
The Katsina Dances on the Hopi Mesas start in winter and continue into July when the Kachina spirits (Katsinam) go to their home until the following year. At Third Mesa, where Chester Poleyestewa is from, the dances begin when the Katsinam arrive on the Mesa in December. At First and Second Mesas, they arrive in February ..read more
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1M ago
Albert Handell was born 85 years ago in Brooklyn, New York. His first memory of creating art was using chalk to draw on the sidewalks. It ingrained in him a love for painting and drawing what was close up ..read more
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10M ago
His silverware work was precise and clean. He used top-quality turquoise. Toward the end of his career, he always had a line of customers waiting for his work ..read more
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10M ago
Back in the 1930's Sallie Wagner Lippincott and her husband, Bill, purchased the Wide Ruins Trading Post in Arizona. She was a young, dynamic woman who truly loved the Navajo people she worked with. But there was one thing she didn't like about how things were going at the trading post ..read more