Stamped Silver Brooch
Artist
Edison Smith
Date2006
Mediumsilver, Indian Mountain or Nevada Blue turquoise
Dimensions1 1/8 × 2 7/8 × 3/8 in. (2.9 × 7.3 × 1 cm)
ClassificationsJewelry & Adornment
Credit LineAlbuquerque Museum, gift of Eason Eige
Object numberPC2010.7.27
DescriptionA stamped and repoussé silver brooch with Indian Mountain or Nevada Blue turquoise. The thin, oblong stone at center is buttressed by symmetrical stacks of four repoussé seeds each, thereby establishing a consistent pattern for the remaining ornamental groupings: four hammered crescents, four prickly arrowheads, four repoussé buttons, and finally, toward either end of the brooch, four fleurs-de-lis. 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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