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Object Number
995-29-10/73115
Display Title
Bolo tie with turquoise nuggets, coral, and shell
Descriptions
Object Description
Navajo bolo tie from the 1970s. Slider is a truncated inverted triangle with black background. It is set with a large oval piece of turquoise set in simple silver bezel at the top center, and one small turquoise nugget set in silver bezel at the bottom. A piece of red branch coral is set on the right, and a carved white mother of pearl feather on the left. Silver tips on the plaited black leather cord have a drum motif.
7 cm high, 6 cm wide, 2 cm deep. Cord total length is 98 cm.
Inventory Description
Bolo tie, brown braided leather strap, silver slide w/ turquoise, coral, mother-
Classification
- Tie
Department
Ethnographic
Date
1970-1979
Culture
- Navajo
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America
/
United States
/
Arizona?
North America / United States / New Mexico?
North America / United States / New Mexico?
Dimensions
Overall: 7 x 6 x 2 cm (2 3/4 x 2 3/8 x 13/16 in.)
Distance (Cord length): 98 x 2 x 6 x 7 cm (13/16 x 2 3/8 x 2 3/4 in.)
Quantity
1
Label on object
995-29-10/73115
Provenance
Collector
Dr. William R. Wright
(1995)
Donor
Dr. William R. Wright
(1995)
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