Photograph by Addison Doty. Copyright 2010 School for Advanced Research.
Bolo tie
Date: c. 1950
Artist or Maker: Dixon Shebola (1937 - 1976)
Dimensions:
Tie: 47.5 cm (18 11/16 in.)
Slide: 8 × 8.6 × 1.2 cm (3 1/8 × 3 3/8 × 1/2 in.)
Medium: mother of pearl | turquoise | coral | mussel shell | jet | silver | plastic aluminum | leather
Place Made:
Zuni Pueblo, McKinley County, New Mexico, Southwest, United States, North America
Object Number: SAR.1989-7-178A
Not on view
Tribal Collection Review RemarksOctavius Seowtewa during collection review visit February 17 and 18, 2010 (Events Record “Collection Review: Zuni Tribe, Review 4”): The description on the catalog card is correct. It should be noted that this type of channel work should be called raised or 3-D channel work because it is not all flat. For example, in this piece the coral pendant on the dancer’s necklace is raised. Since this piece is not as uniformly flat as later pieces (in the areas where it is not raised), it must have been made before jewelers started using wide belt sanders. The materials used are silver, turquoise, coral, white mussel shell, mother of pearl, and plastic aluminum. The silvery material used to fill the gaps between the inlay materials and the silver channels is plastic aluminum.
In Collection(s)
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