Necklace

58-34-21

From: United States of America | Arizona (uncertain) | New Mexico (uncertain)

Curatorial Section: American

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Object Number 58-34-21
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Navajo
Provenience United States of America | Arizona (uncertain) | New Mexico (uncertain)
Culture Area Southwest Culture Area
Period Early 20th Century
Date Made pre 1922 CE
Section American
Materials Silver
Description

Forty silver beads on black velvet ribbon. Unusual shaped Naja pendant of a thin piece of silver with die-stamped designs, hanging from a ring. Shape suggests the cross with double arms with the crescent below; the upper arms bend upward, the lower curve downward. One fake turquoise set in center of crescent.

Length 80 cm
Credit Line Bequest of Miss Elizabeth F. Smaltz, 1958

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