Photograph by Addison Doty. Copyright 2011 School for Advanced Research.
Necklace
Date: before 1945
Artist or Maker: Unknown
Dimensions:
Overall: 36.2 cm (14 1/4 in.)
Medium: pink shell (pink mussel?) | clam shell | 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.S669
Not on view
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 a pink shell that may be pink mussel and other unknown shells (most of the heishi beads), turquoise (two of the heishi beads), and clam shell (several of the pendants, though they are not dyed, as stated in a note on the catalog card).
In Collection(s)
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