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Character-Driven Thunderbird Pin

Navajo

About The Character-Driven Thunderbird Pin

This excellent Navajo hand-carfted pin is decorated with hand-carved stamps. The design is simple and elegant with a nice balance.

The pin has a "round head" safety closure. Perfect for shoulder, lapel or camp shirt pocket flap!!

It is very well made and should happily live to grace apparel for another 75 or more years. Silver just gets better.

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Description	This excellent Navajo hand-carfted pin is decorated with hand-carved stamps. The design is simple and elegant with a nice balance. The pin has a "round head" safety closure. Perfect for shoulder, lapel or camp shirt pocket flap!! It is very well made and should happily live to grace apparel for another 75 or more years. Silver just gets better.
About the Artist	"Dineh or Diné are a Native American people of the Southwestern United States. They are the second largest federally recognized tribe in the United States with over 300,000 enrolled tribal members as of 2015. The Navajo reservation occupies over 27,000 square miles of land in Arizona, New Mexico and Utah. Navajo language is spoken throughout the reservation with most Navajos speaking English as well." excerpted from Wikipedia
Medium	Sterling silver
Size	Thunderbird's wing spread is 3 1/2" and the height from its head to its tail feathers is 1 9/16"
Signed	No, this pin predates a tradition of signing.
Date of creation	First quarter of the 20th Century
Condition	Excellent
Design	Doming of the bird's wings and tail feathers yields a more three dimensional effect.
Provenance	Consigned by an Arizona artist who assembled her collection over the last 30 years. KW41

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