Earring
Date: before 1952
Artist or Maker: Buddy Hattie
Artist or Maker: Anita Hattie
Dimensions:
1.5 cm (9/16 in.)
Medium: silver | turquoise
Credit Line: Indian Arts Fund purchase for the permanent collection, for addition to the Mary Austin Collection, 1952.
Place Made:
Zuni Pueblo, McKinley County, New Mexico, Southwest, United States, North America
Object Number: IAF.S716E
On view
at On view at the Indian Arts Research Center.
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 in this necklace are silver and turquoise. The technique used is cluster setting. The artist named on the catalog card, Buddy Hattie, usually worked with his wife, Anita, on jewelry, so she probably helped make this necklace. Their son, Derek, does channel inlay. They have two daughters who make jewelry; one of them, Jennie Vincent, does needlepoint jewelry.
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