Stamped Silver Bracelet
Artist
Edison Smith
Date2002
Mediumsilver
Dimensions2 1/4 × 2 7/8 × 1 in. (5.7 × 7.3 × 2.5 cm)
ClassificationsJewelry & Adornment
Credit LineAlbuquerque Museum, gift of Eason Eige
Object numberPC2010.7.26
DescriptionA thin silver bracelet with “button” motif at center. Surrounding the central repoussé projection are four symmetrically placed leaves (or feathers), followed by a scalloped heart-shaped design to either side. The latter are outlined with deeply hammered ridges and punctuated with a single, small repoussé button at center. Additional small buttons, volutes, and organic shapes taper toward the open end of the bracelet. Having trained initially as a painter, the artist was taught silversmithing not in the Navajo community of his upbringing (Steamboat area, south of Chinle), but rather by a nun at St. Catherine’s Catholic Indian High School in Santa Fe, New Mexico.On View
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