Zuni Pueblo Petit Point Dangle Earrings with Screw Backs [SOLD]

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Jeweler Once Known
  • Category: Earrings
  • Origin: Zuni Pueblo, SHE-WE-NA
  • Medium: silver, turquoise
  • Size: ½ diameter; 1-⅜” long
  • Item # C4445.11
  • SOLD

This pair of Zuni Pueblo Petit Point Dangle Earrings has intricately cut turquoise cabs set in a floral arrangement.  A bar displaying four snake eye turquoise cabs is suspended on the floral section and four silver strips dangle from that bar.  Screw backs on earrings are an indication of a pre-World War II vintage, although some may have been made into the 1950s.


Condition: these Zuni Pueblo Petit Point Dangle Earrings with Screw Backs are in very good condition

Provenance: from the collection of a resident of Colorado

Recommended Reading:  Navajo and Pueblo Earrings 1850-1945 by Robert Bauver

Relative Links: Southwest Indian JewelryZuni PuebloEarrings

Jeweler Once Known
  • Category: Earrings
  • Origin: Zuni Pueblo, SHE-WE-NA
  • Medium: silver, turquoise
  • Size: ½ diameter; 1-⅜” long
  • Item # C4445.11
  • SOLD

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