Taking Special Requests !!

It's about time for our spring Native American Indian Jewelry buying trip to New Mexico. We wanted to let our customers know about it a few weeks ahead of time for a couple of reasons. First, if there is anything that you would like us to search for, find, and/or pick up for you while we are out there, let us know. We will try our best to locate it for you. Email us pictures, descriptions, artist's names, hallmarks, or anything else that you think would be helpful. Second, this means our online and Ebay stores will be closed while we are away and we will be unable to ship anything. So if you have been thinking about buying something and might need it in the next few weeks, you may want to act now, so that we can ship it before we leave.

We are not sure of the exact dates yet, but we think we will be on the road between March 25 and April 15. We will be available by email throughout the trip.

You can find our latest selection of contemporary Native American Indian jewelry at www.tumbleweedsjewelry.com or you can find us on Ebay using our Ebay UserID of tumbleweedsjewelry or by clicking here Tumbleweeds Jewelry on Ebay We just received a great new collection of contemporary Indian jewelry. Many items are on sale these next few weeks...we need to reduce our current inventory before our trip.

We will be attending the IACA (Indian Arts & Crafts Association) spring wholesale market in Albuquerque, New Mexico and then traveling on to Gallup, where we usually find the best selection of beautiful handcrafted Indian jewelry. Gallup is sometimes called the "Indian Capital of the World", for its location in the heart of Native American lands. There are many Native American peoples in the Gallup/Four Corners region. Route 66 also runs through Gallup. There are over 100 trading posts, shops and galleries in Gallup, making the town the undisputed Southwestern center for original Native American art.

The trading post experience is relatively unique to Gallup as a city. While isolated trading posts do exist on the reservations and in remote small villages, Gallup is the only large town in the Southwest that still hosts this unique mercantile tradition in any significant numbers. Pawn shops abound in Gallup. We have several favorite pawn shops where we get all of our dead pawn Indian jewelry.

We will also stop at our friends in New Mexico who own a Western Art & Native American auction house. They let us browse and rummage through their warehouse, looking for old indian jewelry & other Native American antiquities.

We always buy way too much on these trips. But our thoughts are, since we have travelled all the way out here from New Jersey, we might as well make it worth the effort. At least the cost of gas will be lower this year than it was last year. We can't wait to get on the road again.

Blend with the earth and celebrate life! (from an old Hopi saying)

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