Stamped Silver Brooch
Artist
Edison Smith
Date2004
Mediumsilver, Turquoise Mountain turquoise
Dimensions1 1/8 × 3 1/8 × 3/8 in. (2.9 × 7.9 × 1 cm)
ClassificationsJewelry & Adornment
Credit LineAlbuquerque Museum, gift of Eason Eige
Object numberPC2010.7.28
DescriptionA thin silver bracelet with circular turquoise stone at center. The polished pale-blue stone, which features thin black occlusions, is set in a plain bezel surrounded by four repoussé leaves (or feathers) symmetrically arranged. To either side of these, scalloped heart-shaped designs are outlined with deeply hammered ridges and punctuated with a single, small repoussé button at center. Additional small buttons and volutes adorn both ends of the brooch, and the artist’s hallmark (“ESS/STERLING”) is included on the reverse. 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
Not on view
ca. 1955
