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Origin:southwestern
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Tribal Affiliation:Navajo
Artisan:Zuni
Country/Region of Manufacture:United States
Culture:Native American: US
Handmade:Yes
These exquisite vintage earrings feature seven thin slivers of turquoise in what is called a Zuni “needlepoint” setting with one “snake eye” dot of turquoise at the post. The creamy unblemished quality of the stone is the hallmark of Sleeping Beauty turquoise from the long-closed mine in Arizona. The post is attached to the narrow hoop with the fan of slivers, and although they do dangle and have some length, these are dainty and light in weight. “The Sleeping Beauty Turquoise Mine located in Globe, Arizona is considered to be one of the most important American Turquoise mines in the world…Today, every person who has been to the Southwest or lives in the Southwest knows the name Sleeping Beauty Turquoise and exactly what it looks like. Sleeping Beauty Turquoise is revered due to its pure sky blue color which shows very little to no veining or webbing. The highly sought after stone has made a tremendous impact on the history of Turquoise over the years. For this reason, and the fact that the Arizona Turquoise Mine recently closed…the Turquoise has jumped in value, and is now selling for prices similar to it’s high grade counterparts from Nevada, USA. Its pure color and natural strength make Sleeping Beauty Turquoise characteristics a favorite for jewelry makers and artists around the world. It is one of the most prized forms of turquoise for jewelry and adornment and is often stable enough to be polished and used for turquoise jewelry without any treatment or stabilization.” Earrings measure about 13mm wide at the fan by just under 1″ long. Weight 3.3grams Zuni Indian turquoise jewelry is some of the more intricate Native American jewelry made. Their jewelry trademarks, most of them containing turquoise, are needlepoint and petit point -two types of Zuni clusterwork – mosaic, channelwork and inlay. History shows that the Zunis, although skilled lapidaries since prehistoric times, didn’t begin setting silverwork with turquoise until after the Navajos, around 1890. So, Navajo copycats at first, with practice and time, their jewelry became their own. Predating the first Europeans in the Southwest, Skystone and Silver authors say, in time, Zuni jewelry took on less of the Navajo flair of large, simply shaped stones, replacing them with stones that were smaller and more exquisitley ground and polished. The massiveness of Navajo silverwork was also abandoned in favor of light frameworks which were no more than platforms upon which large quantities of delicately cut stones were mounted, in clusters of varying designs, in geometric patterns. One historian has compared the Zuni’ jewelry-making style to that of Mozart, the Navajo’s, to Beethoven. Zunis are famous for inlayed turquoise jewelry where stones are set into the silver. Much of their turquoise jewelry is made with little or no matrix (brown and sometimes other colored – marks in turquoise that appear in the stone from minerals in the ground when the turquoise is mined). Channelwork, or channel inlay, is where turquoise or other stones, shells, or coral are set into a compartmentalized silver framework. The definition in Skystone and Silver states that this type of jewelry is often a cooperative effort between the Zuni’s stone cutting and setting and the Navajo’s silversmithing. Helen Wells, Arizona Indian art specialist, says when choosing Zuni collectables’ design is important the way the materials are combined…the way…they fit together. She thinks most of the tribe’s nicest work was created during the 1920s where the stones flush to one another with) really good silverwork, and fantastic designs. Zunis are also known for their mosaic work which came down from the prehistoric Hohokam indians of South-central Arizona. Mosaic differs from inlay in that it is not bordered by silver outlines or rules separating the pieces of stone, sometimes turquoise, shell or other set materials. They are masters of creating bits and pieces jewelry.
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