Two Raffles. Two Great Prizes. Each year, the Buffalo Bill Center of the West offers not one, but two opportunities to enter raffles and win an amazing prize—while supporting the Center’s public programs. This year, our prizes were a 1967 Pontiac GTO and a vintage squash blossom necklace. The drawing took place Saturday, September 19, […]
We have drawn the winning tickets for this year’s necklace raffle. Check out this video of our two drawings, the necklace and the car. A. T. from Surprise, Arizona, had ticket number 0255. The proceeds from the raffle of this beautiful Hopi squash blossom necklace benefit the programs of the Buffalo Bill Center of the […]
Originally featured in Points West in Spring 2009 Squash blossom necklace Native tribes in the American Southwest have created exquisite jewelry for ages. Using mined turquoise, and silver they acquired mostly through trade, craftsmen incorporated their own designs and traditions into the making of their jewelry. Some designs dated thousands of years ago were found […]