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Silver wire cuff bracelet with punched/filed designs / Native American; Navajo (Diné)

Essay/Description

The outer frame of the cuff appear to be made of heavy gauge wire triangular in cross-section. The back of the wire indicates this may have been cast to look like wire rather than being actual drawn wire. Into the wire frame is soldered a braided wire section made of three heavy gauge wires round in cross-section. The deep central parallel line design may have been created by filing. The shallower flanking zig-zag lines were probably punched.

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Title(s): 
Silver wire cuff bracelet with punched/filed designs
Culture: 
Native American; Navajo (Diné)
Date: 
circa 1900
Period: 
Historic
Place: 
United States of America
Materials/Techniques: 
silver
Object Type: 
Accession No: 
60.9
Department: 
Not On View

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