Jimmy Poyer Multi Stone Inlay Earrings Native American Books The Yei Be Chei dancers

The Yei Be Chei dancers are the human impersonators

now in museum collections

Diverging from the norm of western umbrellas

With the tools of simple labor — shovel and axe

Jimmy Poyer Multi Stone Inlay Earrings Native American Books The Yei Be Chei dancersJimmy Poyer was born in 1954 near Mexican Hat, Arizona and raised near Red Mesa, south of the Four Corners. After deciding college was not for him, he decided to go on tour, playing lead guitar and singing vocals in a band performing for nearly two decades in venues from Canada to Mexico. When he would return home between tours, he apprenticed under renowned jeweler, Jimmie Harrison. Inspired by Harrison, he developed his own inlay style,