Jewelry communicates many things—rank, status, place, and culture among them. Pueblo and Diné (Navajo) artists are celebrated for their extraordinary lapidary skill at combining stones like sky blue, often locally-mined, turquoise with red spiny oyster shell, dark blue lapis lazuli, and other stones to create architectural landscapes. Beginning in the 1970s, Angie Reano Owen reintroduced the extraordinary stone-on-shell inlay technique previously practiced by Pueblo artists. Creating a mosaic of small rectangular materials set in a herringbone pattern, Owen produces a design that is deeply rooted in her culture’s rich past. After mastering the technique she taught it to other members of the Reano family, who were well-known heshi (shell) beadmakers. Many in her family now produce similar jewelry. In 1992 this bracelet was awarded a blue ribbon at Santa Fe’s Indian Market.