Southwest Sky

SUMMATION: Located in the back corner of the Jackalope main building and has a great assortment of beads, jewelry, fossils [1], minerals, and stone animals. Service was friendly, helpful, and knowledgeable.
NAME: Southwest Sky, LLC
MY RATING: Excellent
TITLE: «Bountiful Beads» [Yelp, review #165, 19 November 2014 (TripAdvisor, not listed) and 5 January 2015]
NEW MEXICO TRIP REVIEW NUMBER: 19
TELEPHNE: (505) 203‑8777
LOCALITY: 11 221 Morocco Road Northeast, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87 111‑2650
Outpost in the original Jackalope 2820 Cerrillos Road, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87 507
DIFFICULTY LOCATING: easy
DIRECTIONS: Counters and tables in the back right-​hand corner of the main building of Jackalope.
OCCASION: Looking for beads. They had many unusual and not generally available ones. Also bought dragonfly earrings and an embedded insect pendant.
HOURS OF OPERATION: 9 am-​6 pm Monday-​Thursday, 9 am-​7 pm Friday-​Saturday, 9:30 am-​6 pm Sunday
SERVICE: Excellent, friendly, and he took out additional stock to show us.
ENVIROMENTAL: They sell several kinds of Precious Coral [A], which is bad for the coral reefs.
HISTORY: Founded in 2011
FOOTNOTES:
[1] Smallest trilobites I had ever seen, several kinds of nice shark teeth
SPECIES LIST
[A] Precious Coral, Corallium rubrum, and some related species. They occur in the Pacific and the Mediterranean at great depths or in caves. They are bushy gorgonians that grow slowly and have been over harvested in many places. The red to pink skeleton can be polished and used in jewelry.