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Photograph by Addison Doty. Copyright 2010 School for Advanced Research.

Bolo tie

Photograph by Addison Doty. Copyright 2010 School for Advanced Research.

Bolo tie

Date: 1953 - 2000
Artist or Maker: Unknown
Dimensions:
1 x 5 cm, 45 1/2 in. (3/8 x 1 15/16 in., 115.6 cm)
Medium: leather | silver | turquoise | mother of pearl | coral | pen shell | jet
Credit Line: Gift of Dr. Fabrizia Marcus, 2000.
Place Made:
Zuni Pueblo, McKinley County, New Mexico, Southwest, United States, North America
Object Number: SAR.2000-1-7
Not on view
DescriptionBlack leather braided bolo tie with circular slide. 6cm long silver cone-shaped tips ending with a 0.9cm ball with raised bands where two halves join. Small silver bead on bottom. Two fan shaped designs (feathers?) stamped at top of commercially made tips. Silver slide of circular shape (5.0cm). Slide is flat channel inlay of turquoise, mother of pearl, coral, jet and pen shell set in silver channels. Levered clasp soldered to back. Sun face (1.2cm dia): top half composed of 0.15cm high horizontal band of abalone shell, topped by two halves of coral (left) and turquoise (right). Bottom half jet with 0.2cm dia. turquoise mouth surrounded by silver band. Headdress of mother of pearl feathers (2.0cm long), tipped with turquoise (0.4cm high) set in silver with a silver bead at outer tip. Feathers surround face except for 0.7cm at bottom. Silver "rope" defines edges of open area. Two feathers of abalone (0.7cm long), horizontal coral band (0.5cm high) and turquoise tip (0.35cm high) set in silver and with silver bead (0.2cm dia.) at outside tip.
Tribal Collection Review RemarksJim Enote and Octavius Seowtewa during collection review visit December 7 and 8, 2010 (Events Record “Collection Review: Zuni Tribe, Review 5”): The materials used are silver, mother of pearl, jet, turquoise, pen shell, and leather. The technique used is channel inlay. The silver tips are commercially made.
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