Charles Sequevya Loloma (January 7, 1921 — June 9, 1991) was a Hopi Native American artist known for his jewelry.
A highly influential Native American jeweler during the 20th century, Loloma popularized use of gold and gemstones not previously used in Hopi jewelry.
Loloma was a leader in modern Native jewelry design whose innovations made him the most famous and widely collected Indian jeweler of all time. He was born near Hotevilla on Hopi’s Third Mesa and attended Hopi High School where Fred Kabotie led the art program.
In 1949 he received a fellowship from the Whitney Foundation to study Hopi ceramics, and in 1954 he moved to Arizona and opened a ceramics studio in Lloyd Kiva New’s Kiva Crafts Center in Scottsdale.
Loloma started making jewelry around 1955 and gradually abandoned his Lolomaware line of pottery. 
By the 1960s he had earned an international reputation for innovative jewelry using sandcasting, fabricated silver or gold, and a variety of stones and other materials including ironwood and fossilized bone and ivory.
Loloma used unconventional materials like sugilite, lapis, ivory, gold, pearls, diamonds, and even exotic woods.
With the founding of the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe in 1962 came the realization of a long-time dream of building a school directed toward helping Indian students find an individual expression of their cultures through the arts.
More of Charles Sequevya Loloma’s jewelry can be found at https://wheelwright.org/publication/loloma-beauty-is-his-name/.
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These are lovely!!
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It’s another version of American Indian art — I love that he added gold and refinement to basic wonderful colors and styles.
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I don’t like traditional turquoise. The colors in the person are stunning!!
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this stuff is wicked cool! I am thrilled to know that someone, somewhere is getting to enjoy showing these off!
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I love finding unique art .. things others don’t often get to see. Such wonderful creativity out there!
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I love that you post/share with us!
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I’m very happy you enjoyed his work.
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My dad has a handmade turquoise belt buckle and bolo tie “ring” he got in Santa Fe years ago. They are among his proudest treasures. Sadly he doesn’t remember the name of the person who made them. He bought them directly from the Native American on the square in Santa Fe.
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I think that’s so cool. I do try and buy authentic pieces when I can — so much more personal than mass produced art, right?
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He sounds interesting, I’ll do a little more reading about him!
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