Barrette and pin

Museum number:
2-66951a,b
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm210266951a@2cb
Accession number:
Acc.3868
Description:
With pin. (a) Barrette is silver bar-shape, convex, has 7 good blue turquoise stones in bezel settings. Complex silverwork, 2 perforations for crossbar. (b) Crossbar with rasp-like engravings on pin, 4 hemispherical designs on head.
Donor:
Barbara E. Busch
Collection place:
Southwestern United States
Verbatim coll. place:
Southwest
Culture or time period:
Navajo
Collector:
Barbara E. Busch
Collection date:
1982
Object type:
ethnography
Production date:
prob. 1920 - 1929
Accession date:
November 1983
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
(a)— width 4.5 centimeters, (b)— length 13.3 centimeters, and (a)— length 8.6 centimeters
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Barrette and pin, accession number 2-66951a,b, described as With pin. (a) Barrette is silver bar-shape, convex, has 7 good blue turquoise stones in bezel settings. Complex silverwork, 2 perforations for crossbar. (b) Crossbar with rasp-like engravings on pin, 4 hemispherical designs on head.

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