Zuni Pueblo Silver and Turquoise Hoop Earrings [SOLD]

Prehistorically, the Ancestral Puebloans worked with stone, turquoise and shell to create pieces of adornment. When the Spanish arrived they brought metals, and the ability to use the metals to make jewelry. The Spanish taught the Navajo to work with silver and the Navajo taught the Zuni. The Zuni continued to use their skill in working with small pieces of stone to create their traditional jewelry.

FOR PIERCED EARS

These charming hoop earrings feature fine channel inlay. This technique requires the artist to precisely cut and shape a stone and then precisely place it within a sterling silver channel. The artist has created delicate channel inlay hoops that fall from a small turquoise post. They are unsigned.

Condition: this Zuni Pueblo Silver and Turquoise Hoop Earrings is in excellent condition

Provenance: From the collection of a gentleman from Colorado

Recommended Reading: Adair, John. Navajo and Pueblo Silversmiths, University of Oklahoma Press, 1946