Biography lavonne lalion

       We complain all the time about so many silversmiths deliberately not signing their work well up into the Fifties and how nice it would be if everyone had marked their pieces, but that is not always correct.

The signature of two letters LL has two or three takers at any moment, though the two most prominent ones are both gone.

         Lavonne Lalio, whose sister Arvella runs the Zuni jewelry co-op, has been the front runner for years.

But in fact, Lavonne did not make jewelry. Years ago someone asked me to find information about the girl in the first Arizona Highways collector’s edition on Jewelry [ Jan. 1974 p.19.] More specifically the partly visible solid turquoise knifewing necklace she is wearing.

         Her name appears in the photo caption as Janice Bowekaty.

I thought finding her would be easy, but the necklace was almost certainly gone.

Biography lavonne lalion wikipedia

I was wrong on both accounts. Esther Henderson took the picture in 1959 at Ceremonial. Finding J