authentic apache made craft beaded key chain 6.5" 002

Description

Apache Fair Trade Cooperative, Inc.
Artisan
: Jolene Hoffman is a San Carlos Apache Tribal member and resides on the Reservation.
Jolene is a mother and grandmother of many children. She teaches her kids how to make bags and other crafts like beading. Sometimes she visits school and teaches children how to sew by hand and makes a bag for each kid. Jolene loves anything to do with hand especially fabrics. She helps community by forming girls club to teach them crafts and the tradition.
Materia
l: glass seed bead, twine inside, keychain holder
Size
:  The stretched total length is 6.5”.
Culture
: The merchants who came with the conquistadores brought colorful beads and traded with the Natives. Because of the brightness of the colors, the indigenous people created jewelry and adorned their bodies with them. Then they began decorating household items and other things with the beads. The beads color represents the color of the Arizona, the turquoise, blue sky, magnificent sunset and various sand stone colors.