component
- Museum number
- Am1998,06.90.a-b
- Description
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Two leaves (components) made of silver, with jagged edges.
- Production date
- 1998 (September)
- Dimensions
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Length: 1.20 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Purchased in order to show the type of pre-fabricated items that are on the market at this time. These leaves might be soldered onto any item of jewellery bracelets, watch tips, rings, earrings, as in the jewellery Am 1998.6.4-5-6. The inclusion of leaves as a motife became fashionable in the 1970s in Native American jewellery.
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- good.
- Acquisition date
- 1998
- Acquisition notes
- Purchased at Thunderbird Supply Company, Gallup, New Mexico, a popular wholesaler with Native American jewellers.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Am1998,06.90.a-b