Sterling and Inlay Antelope Kachina Watch Tips

Zuni


Savvy Price $200.00: Gallery Price $275.00

Title: Sterling and Inlay Antelope Kachina Watch Tips
Artist: Zuni
Medium: Sterling silver, jet, white pearl shell, turquoise and green serpentine
Troy ounces: .77 troy ounces
Size: Tips are each 1 3/8" length X 15/16" at widest. Stainless steel band is 2 1/2" length X 5/8" width. Another, longer one is available, no charge
Signed: No maker's mark
Date of creation: 1970's
Condition: Excellent, as appeared framed.
Description: Watch tips were fabricated with mill-rolled sterling silver sheet using hard solder for the channel bezeling, pin tube and wire bar. The inlay consists of jet, white pearl shell, turquoise and green serpentine using single stone in bezel as well as stone on stone techniques. Some of the inlays are carved to sit above the bezel for greater relief.
Provenance: Sop
Gram weight: 23.0 grams

About The Sterling and Inlay Antelope Kachina Watch Tips

These Antelope or Chop Kachina watch tips are a stylized representation of a rain bringing heribivor deity that with the deer and ram, help crops and grasses to grow providing needed moisture and food. It is also believed the Antelope and his fellow kachinas in this group, help with control of spasms.

About Zuni

The best book to explain the steps in creating Zuni jewelry is Oscar Branson's Indian Jewelry Making. Volume II.

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