Mother-daughter beading duo and Cherokee Nation citizens Jennifer Saenz and Vicky Watson, along with designer Debbie Franklin ...

It had been the beadwork that was the focus of his practice spending long hours at a loom in his South Miami studio a few blocks from his home before he passed away at the age of 86 in 2023.

“Each piece of clay weighed about 350 grammes and this was the average weight of the Iron Age loom weights,” Boertien explained, adding that different forms of beads were produced. The loom ...