Eveli

Eveli Sabatie was born in Algeria in 1940, and raised between Morocco and Paris. In 1968, she moved to San Francisco, where she would meet both the Hopi Nation and the legendary Native American jeweller Charles Loloma. Their four-year collaboration resulted in some of the most innovative works of Loloma’s career, and Loloma named Eveli of one of only two protégés. Eveli continued to produce exceptional and imaginative jewellery and art for a further 24 years. She is the recipient of the Silver at the New Mexico Crafts Biennial, 1974, and has had several solo exhibitions, at the Wheelwright Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico (2016-2017); Fenn Galleries, Santa Fe, New Mexico (1970s- 1990s); Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, Arizona (1982); The Hand and the Spirit, Scottsdale, Arizona (1980s); The Elements, New York, NY (1980s); Gallery 3, Phoenix, Arizona (1971). She has had her writing published in Loloma, Beauty is his Name by Martha Hopkins Struever (2005), The Creative Lapidary by Frank W. Long (1976), Turquoise, The Gem of the Century by Oscar Branson (1975), and many other articles and newspaper articles. Her masterpieces are sought after by collectors from around the world. Cheri Falkenstein Doyle is a curator, author, and the lead researcher on the Acequia Madre House legacy project, as part of the International Women’s Study Center. She co-authored Nature Nurtures (The Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian, 2011) and contributed to Clay People: Pueblo Indian Figurative Traditions, among many others. Mark Bahti is a researcher and author who collects and writes about Native American art. His books include A Consumer’s Guide to Southwest Indian Art, Pueblo Stories and Storytellers, Navajo Sandpainting Art (co-authored with Eugene Baatsoslanii Joe), Collecting Southwest Native American Jewelry, and many more. He is currently working on a book about the history of Southwest Native American jewellery. He is involved in many Native-run organisations that address education, health and employment issues.

To Wear the Jewelry of Eveli iv
Foreword viii
Introduction xi
Prologue xiii
Jewelry & its Magic xiv
THE JOURNEY 1
HOPI LAND 2
SANTA FE 31
TUCSON 55
CLOUDS & RAIN 79
HONORING CLOUDS & RAIN 81
THE SIGNIFICANCE 105
BEING HOME 121
EARTHSCAPES 123
CONNECTED TO COSMOS 147
MY BESTIARY 159
SEA NOSTALGIA 197
THE GARDENS 213
BEING HUMAN 235
WE HUMANS 237
ASSEMBLAGE 251
SOUND & MOVEMENT 273
THE MYTHICAL & THE MYSTICAL 281
BRANCHING OUT 303
IVORY CARVINGS 304
MIXED MEDIA 305
BRONZES 306
INSTALLATION 308
Epilogue 309
Index 310
Photography credits 317

"it’s the colorful photographs (over 500!) of one-of-a-kind Hopi and Moroccan-inspired mosaic pieces featured in her memoir, out in October, that truly command attention, from ammonite fossils and ivory animal renderings to stunning lapis, coral, and turquoise designs."