Fashion - Accessories

 

Jennifer Younger started her handmade jewelry brand "to honor my grandmother who wasn't allowed to practice her Native American culture."  She resides in Sitka, Alaska as part of the Tlingit tribe.

She works in silver, copper and gold.  Here, she designed a copper headband and then used a wet plate collodion process to photograph.

Copper and abalone.

Gold plated brass chain with antique trade beads.

Lily Gladstone wore a piece on the cover of Vogue.

Earrings and necklace modeled by Quannah Chasinghorse.

This piece incorporates Sitka spruce root.

These are engraved with forget-me-nots, state flower of Alaska.

"As I learned more about the copper and its deeper history to my community, I leaned in on that.  The copper represents stature, strength, supernatural power, and protection."

She refers to the Tlingit formline art, which is a feature of the Northwest Coast, distinguished by the use of ovoids, U forms, and S forms.

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