Zuni
Southwest
1990s
Sterling silver with inlay
Slide height 3 inches (7.6 cm), width 2 inches (5.1 cm), cord length 42 inches (106.7 cm)
Signed
Provenance: Private collection, El Paso, Texas
The slide is a rounded rectangle of silver carrying a pronghorn head in profile, the muzzle and throat inlaid in white shell, the neck and cheek in warm brown, and the horns and eye in black, with the fine cut lines of the jaw and the ear left as silver so the drawing sits in the metal rather than on it. Bands of small triangles in turquoise and red run across the top and bottom edges, alternating point up and point down, and they frame the animal without competing with it. The bolo hangs on a 42 inch braided black leather cord finished with sterling silver pronghorn tips.
Dale Edaakie is a Zuni jeweler born in 1938. He works in the Zuni inlay tradition, cutting shell, stone, and jet into fitted compositions set in silver. His parents, Dennis and Nancy Edaakie, worked in the same technique and are known for their bird subjects, and Dale took the family method toward animals instead, which is the work his own name is associated with.
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Zuni
Southwest
1990s
Sterling silver with inlay
Slide height 3 inches (7.6 cm), width 2 inches (5.1 cm), cord length 42 inches (106.7 cm)
Signed
Provenance: Private collection, El Paso, Texas
The slide is a rounded rectangle of silver carrying a pronghorn head in profile, the muzzle and throat inlaid in white shell, the neck and cheek in warm brown, and the horns and eye in black, with the fine cut lines of the jaw and the ear left as silver so the drawing sits in the metal rather than on it. Bands of small triangles in turquoise and red run across the top and bottom edges, alternating point up and point down, and they frame the animal without competing with it. The bolo hangs on a 42 inch braided black leather cord finished with sterling silver pronghorn tips.
Dale Edaakie is a Zuni jeweler born in 1938. He works in the Zuni inlay tradition, cutting shell, stone, and jet into fitted compositions set in silver. His parents, Dennis and Nancy Edaakie, worked in the same technique and are known for their bird subjects, and Dale took the family method toward animals instead, which is the work his own name is associated with.
We ship free anywhere in the world, fully insured, packed by hand.
