Born and raised on the Santo Domingo Pueblo Reservation in New Mexico, Ed Aguilar created jewelry for over 40 years and his talents will be truly missed.
Ed studied silversmithing at boarding school in Santa Fe. Like many others from the Pueblo, Ed worked as a hot shot firefighter during the summers. Before he could finish high school, his father was injured and unable to work. To support his mother, three sisters and two brothers, Ed quit school and went to work. In the 1960s, after watching his uncle "pull silver" into tubular beads for chains, Ed decided to make jewelry. He taught himself how to make pulled silver beads -- stringing them much the same as his mother had strung her hand cut stone and shell beads years before.
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