Thunderbird Necklace
Santo Domingo
- Savvy Price $625.00
- Gallery Price $750.00
- Title
- Thunderbird Necklace
- Artist
- Santo Domingo
- Medium
- Gypsum, turquoise, jet and string
- Size
- The center pendant is 1 3/4" in length and 1 1/4" at the widest bottom point.
- Date of creation
- Circa 1920's - 1930's
- Condition
- Excellent
- Turquoise
- Natural turquoise
- Provenance
- Arizona jewelry collector
- About The Thunderbird Necklace
This pretty Thunderbird necklace consists of ten (10) graduated triangular tabs and a tear-drop shaped tab carved out of the same white gypsum as the graduated beads.
The bird is made only of natural turquoise mosaic inlaid (instead of overlaid) into a shallow carving in the tear-drop shaped pendant. The tabs have the same blue to green turquoise overlaid mosaic terminated by a black band of jet, leaving the end 2/5ths of the triangle white. The material portion of the necklace is 20" long--with a tie extending it another 4".
The entire piece has an elegant simplicity and could easily be work with anything!
- About Santo Domingo
The potters of Santo Domingo Pueblo in New Mexico are known for well-formed pottery decorated with dramatic stylized flora, often in combination with geometric designs.
Santo Domingo Pueblo also hosts jewelers with expertise in creating the finest heishi as well as shell overlay work. In the early years, some overlay work combined traditional turquoise, jet and shell with unorthodox modern materials such as poker chips and phonograph records.
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