In "The Navajo and Pueblo Silversmiths" (John Adair) in interviews with his informant Grey Moustache, Adair notes the following: "bracelets and rings of a yellowish color" were worn by the Utes and Southern Plains tribes who obtained the metals from the Indian traders to whom they sold hides" (p.11); also see p. 6 "Some of the silver that the Navajo made they traded to the Utes." And Chee Dodge states that while at Ft. Sumner (1864-68) the Navajo had very little silver but lots of copper and brass which was pounded up into bracelets" (p. 5). References: "Saponero and Colorow were chiefs in McAndrew''s time.