We first met James and Doris Coriz at the Indian Arts & Crafts Association (IACA) Spring Show in April of 2006 in Albuquerque. This husband and wife duo from Santa Domingo Pueblo make very traditional jewelry in the Santo Domingo style consisting of turquoise and shell prepared by hand. We've been showing their work ever since.

This is a classic Santo Domingo single-strand tab necklace. The tabs, or "corn", are made from spiny oyster. The strands consists of hand-turned stabilized Kingman turquoise disk beads with a few red coral beads and small Sterling beads which terminate at the catch. These turquoise beads are graduated in diameter. The turquoise beads were cut from rocks of rough Kingman turquoise, drilled and hand-turned to perfection. An often-made style of necklace from Santo Domingo, this version of all handmade components is simply nicer.