Buffalo
Horn Jewelry
All jewelry seen here is made from real bison horn. The inlay
material is all natural and so is the highly polished
finish.
The buffalo
horn is first made as smooth as possible with a rough sand
paper and then gradually sanded smoother to a mat
finish. It is then that I draw a design with a pencil
and the carve the design or carve around the design depending
on the image I want to produce.
The channels
I carve are then inlaid with crushed stones and shells and
mixed with a resin. The design is then sanded again
until flush with the horn and then polished
for a short time on a
buffing wheel until it has a very high gloss finish.
The colors
come from many different earth colors. White is made
from Mother of Pearl. Light yellow is made from a
sandstone. Bright yellow is Gold Mother of Pearl.
Red is from Coral. Blue is
made from Lapis. Green comes from Malachite. Dark Red
is made from a sandstone that comes from the Great
Race Track that runs around the Black Hills of South
Dakota.
It is said
that the buffalo horn cap is where the buffalo spirit
lives and that spirit has great power. People who
are drawn to our buffalo horn pieces have said that
they can feel that
power. It is not a like any other jewelry you have
ever seen before. It has a natural beauty that all
things from nature possess. Even customers that have
come to us dripping with gold and silver jewelry
have confessed that there is a special feeling that
they have gotten from wearing this very unique material.