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Photograph by Addison Doty. Copyright 2011 School for Advanced Research.

Necklace

Photograph by Addison Doty. Copyright 2011 School for Advanced Research.

Necklace

Date: before 1945
Artist or Maker: Unknown
Dimensions:
Overall: 40 cm (15 3/4 in.)
Medium: shell | bone | turquoise | string, cotton
Credit Line: Gift of Amelia Elizabeth White, 1945.
Place Made:
Zuni Pueblo, McKinley County, New Mexico, Southwest, United States, North America
Object Number: IAF.S671
Not on view
DescriptionTwo strands, white and pink disk shell beads; seventeen arrowhead-shaped pendants of bone covered with turquoise mosaic.
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 turquoise, bone, white and pink shell, and cotton string.
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