Cordell Pajarito Turquoise Butterfly Ring Mother's Day the Army of the West

the Army of the West marched through Santa Fe

the surrounding desert

Originally trained as a photographer

Florence Miller Pierce

Cordell Pajarito Turquoise Butterfly Ring Mother's Day the Army of the WestTufa cast sterling silver ring with a three dimensional butterfly perched atop, balancing a perfect rounded piece of turquoise. Tufa is a compressed volcanic ash material. When casting, the artist hand carves a design into tufa stone creating a negative space for molten metal to be poured. The use of tufa creates a beautiful, earthy pebble like texture on the silver. Stamped CORDELL 24 on the inside. Cordell Pajarito of Kewa Pueblo (Santo Domingo