Photograph by Addison Doty. Copyright 2009 School for Advanced Research.
Earring
Date: c. 1951
Artist or Maker: Unknown
Dimensions:
4.4 × 1.4 cm (1 3/4 × 9/16 in.)
Medium: silver | Sardinian coral | turquoise | plastic aluminum
Credit Line: Indian Arts Fund purchase for the permanent collection, for inclusion in the Mary Austin Memorial Collection, 1951.
Place Made:
Zuni Pueblo, McKinley County, New Mexico, Southwest, United States, North America
Object Number: IAF.S708B
Not on view
Tribal Collection Review RemarksJim Enote and Octavius Seowtewa during collection review visit February 16 and 17, 2011 (Events Record “Collection Review: Zuni Tribe, Review 6”): The catalog description says the red is Sardinian coral. It appears that this is correct because it has different shades of red, like Sardinian coral does. The piece is silver channel inlay, as the description says, but plastic aluminum was used to fill in gaps between the silver and the coral and turquoise.
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