ear-ring

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Object Type
Museum number: Am1998,06.40.a-b
Description: Pair of earrings of thin pieces of spondylus shell hanging on silver wire.
Producer name
Production ethnic group
Production date: 1998 (October)
Production place: Made in: Santo Domingo Pueblo
Excavator/field collector
Findspot: Found/Acquired: Santa Fe (New Mexico)
Materials: silver; spondylus shell
Technique: cut; polished; filed
Curator's comments: Christopher Chavez makes both turquoise/stone jewellery, and silver jewellery. I encountered Christopher repeatedly on his many days at the Santa Fe Palace of the Governors. Christopher Chavez comes from a family of lapidarists.
Location: Not on display
Condition: good.
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1998
Acquisition notes: The earrings were purchased at the Portal of the Palace of the Governors in Santa Fe where Christopher Chavez often sells.
Department: Africa, Oceania and the Americas
Registration number: Am1998,06.40.a-b

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