Pair of Zuni Pueblo Earrings with Sunface Imagery [SOLD]
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- Category: Earrings
- Origin: Zuni Pueblo, SHE-WE-NA
- Medium: turquoise, jet, spondylus shell;
for pierced ears - Size: ⅞” hi x 1-⅛” wide;
for pierced ears - Item # C4612N SOLD
The circle of the face of the sun was set in turquoise, jet, and spondylus shell in mosaic style. The sunface has a pair of jet earrings, round turquoise ears and a beautiful feather display of spondylus shell tipped with jet. The earrings are fitted for pierced ears and are an excellent example of channel inlay technique.
What is significant about the Zuni Sunface? The two sections of the Sunface image represent two important ideas. The first is the pairing of one with the family. To the Zuni people family is as critical to life as food and water and they also believe each person is unique and special. Each requires the other, and both become represented as a main component in the Sunface. The other meaning is to symbolize the coming and going of the sun, sunrise and sunset or day and night. The continuity of these events gives hope and stability to the Zuni, - neither can exist without the other.
Condition: new condition
Provenance: this Pair of Zuni Pueblo Earrings with Sunface Imagery is from a client in Colorado
Recommended Reading: Navajo and Pueblo Earrings 1850-1945 - Collected by Robert V. Gallegos, by Robert Bauver
TAGS: Southwest Indian Jewelry, Zuni Pueblo, Earrings
- Category: Earrings
- Origin: Zuni Pueblo, SHE-WE-NA
- Medium: turquoise, jet, spondylus shell;
for pierced ears - Size: ⅞” hi x 1-⅛” wide;
for pierced ears - Item # C4612N SOLD
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