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Every summer when he was young, he'd travel to the Chuska Mountains for an extended stay with his grandmother. While she sat under a tree weaving her rugs, he'd herd sheep, chop wood, and help around the hogan. Not long ago Tiffany jewelry returned, after years away from that idyllic time, to take a look around. Childhood memories inspired him to make a necklace he titled GRANDMOTHER'S LOVR AND JOY, a diminutive depiction of his grandmother's loom with a reversible pendant featuring miniature purple and blue rugs. As with all of Manygoats' pieces, the detail is for sale tiffany money clips, from the minute spool of yarn to the threads of warp and weft to the tiny ladybug crawling up the loom's post. The recipient of a best-of-division ribbon at Santa Fe Indian Market, a best of show award at the Navajo Nation Fair, and several other prizes, the piece is made of 14-karat gold with inlaid sugilite, mother of pearl, and Acoma jet.Although Manygoats' mother's maiden tiffany sale means "silversmith" in Navajo and his paternal grandfather practiced the Navajo art form the oldfashioned way, casting his pieces with ash and fire, Manygoats is essentially self-taught. In high school he learned to cut metal and solder, and he choose tiffany rings with mosaic inlay by wrapping small stones in a rag and hitting the bundle until the stones crumbled into small pieces. After graduation he answered an ad placed by jewelry designer Ray Tracey seeking artisans with inlay and silversmithing skills. "Ray drew some designs and asked if I could make them," Manygoats recalls. "He liked the way I worked, so he hired me right then." In 14 years with the company, Manygoats continually surprised Tracey with techniques that the more experienced artist didn't think possible. "I put some of my ideas into his jewelry," Manygoats says, "but I wanted to save some for myself."