Cordell Pajarito Raindrop Pendant Eco awarded by the Museum of

awarded by the Museum of Indian Arts & Culture

Each Milagro is specially made for a unique purpose so there are a variety of shapes

They live in Arizona

The peaceable Pueblo Indians seemed an unlikely people to rise emphatically and successfully against the Spanish Empire

Cordell Pajarito Raindrop Pendant Eco awarded by the Museum ofOpen hook silver tufa cast pendant featuring a fluid turquoise faced figure adorned with spirals and lines. 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. Cordell Pajarito of Kewa Pueblo (Santo Domingo Pueblo), born in 1988, is the grandson of esteemed jeweler