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Catalog Number

CAS 0370-1473A,B   CAS 0370-1473A,B; Earrings
Category Jewelry & Metalwork
Object Name Earrings
Culture Navajo
Global Region North America
Country USA
State/Prov./Dist. Arizona, New Mexico
County
Other Geographic Data unknown
Maker's Name Unknown
Date of Manufacture ca. 1890-1910
Collection Name Elkus Collection (Native American)
Materials Metal: Silver; Turquoise
Description Pair of earrings, each consisting of pear-shaped turquoise nugget with small drilled hole at narrow end; Nuggets were likely originally strung on string or other cordage and subsequently converted to present form by addition of silver wire through perforation and attachment to silver findings; Each earrings is suspended from small loop on side of stainless steel screw-on earring post on whose end is mounted single silver bead; Earrings are unsigned.
Dimensions (cm) Width = 1.7, Thickness = 1.1, Length = 3.5