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EARLY NAVAJO SANDCAST BRACELET
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Circa: 1920's
Provenance: Private collection
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Description
This lovely 1920's sandcast bracelet features a beautiful design, with the overall integrity of the bracelet in excellent condition. Very fine, deep stamp work on the entire cuff. A very deep smooth patina inside the cuff, but visible cast marks when using a loop. It measures 15/16" wide. The interior of the cuff measuring 5 1/2" with an opening gap of 1 1/8".
Metal jewelry was introduced to the Navajo Indians by Plains tribes. In the mid-1860s, Navajo silversmithing began with the work of Atsidi Sani. The first silver jewelry-makers were Navajos living on the reservation. The practice of forming silver into objects of personal adornment soon spread to the Hopi and Zuni tribes. Casting silver was one of the earliest methods of making concha's, buttons, rings and bracelets.
Early Navajo artisans developed a labor-intensive process for making silver jewelry called casting. Mexican and American silver coins were melted in crucibles with torches or over fires stoked by hide bellows. The molten metal was then poured into one-of-a-kind molds carved from volcanic tufa stone, moistened sand or harder sedimentary sandstone. Jewelry items such as bracelets were often cast flat, then worked into a rounded shape. The porous nature of the stone left distinctive pits and imperfections in the finished product.
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