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GASP VINTAGE NATIVE AMERICAN ZUNI Parrot INLAY STERLING SILVER BOLO TIE For Sale
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GASP VINTAGE NATIVE AMERICAN ZUNI Parrot INLAY STERLING SILVER BOLO TIE:
$645.00
Check out the parrots even on the tips!! This is one of the best vintage Zuni bolo ties! It features a hand carved silver parrot bolo with turquoise, jet, and mother of pearl lapis lazuli inlay, and black leather ties with smaller parrot head tips! Impressive Artistry! Sterling silver. The bolo measures around 4\"½ x 28mm at it\'s widest point black leather cord measures 38\"inches long with tips total weight 42.0grams sterling silver Cir Mid Century + Zuni jewelry encompasses a distinctive style backed by ornate processes.
Much like the Navajo, the influences of outsiders helped the Zuni create and innovate their jewelry designs. The Zuni’s jewelry construction and techniques still outshine what Western jewelry designers make today.
Lapidary Artistry The Ancient Zuni were known for their lapidary skills. Lapidary means to artfully cut and polish stone. The Zuni of today excel in this exceptional style of jewelry making. In the 1870s, Atsidi Chon, a Navajo traveling through Zuni lands, began teaching the Zuni people how to silversmith. This trade had never existed before the Spaniards entered North America.
Initially, silversmithing produced items for everyday use, such as tools and weaponry. As this trade became more widely known, Zuni artists realized they could adapt this technique to make creative jewelry designs.
Soon the Zuni learned how to combine stone lapidary work with silver, and the distinctive Zuni jewelry compositions we see today materialized.
C.G. Wells’ Influence on Zuni Jewelry Beginning in the early 1900s, a white man would soon befriend the Zuni people of New Mexico and help them innovate their techniques and designs. C.G. Wells was born in North Carolina but moved to Gallup, New Mexico, in the early 1900s. After being hired at a local trading post, he became enthralled with the Zuni people’s culture, language, and art.
In the 1930s, he bought the trading post and saw an opportunity for Zuni jewelry to capture the hearts of the incoming tourists from the Santa Fe Railroad and Route 66.
He gave the Zuni new equipment to work with, encouraged them to use turquoise in their pieces, and provided them with large amounts of precious and semi-precious stones.
These innovations transformed how the Zunis produced their jewelry, and his influences on Zuni jewelry can still be seen today.
Jewelry Styles It was also during the early 1900s that the Zuni jewelry makers began creating different jewelry styles.
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