For a discussion of the artist see Cirillo, 1992, pp. 143-154: "For Loloma, beauty resided in the stone mesas and stark landscape of the topography surrounding Hotevilla. And he used the colors of the land in combinations that had not been seen before, mixing ironwood, lapis lazuli, coral, malachite, fossilized ivory, and turquoise to suggest the jagged shapes of distant mountains or the subtle shadings of the high dessert. The "height braclet," made of multiple stones placed at different levels to recreate the contours of the southwestern terrain, quickly became Loloma's signature piece."