Silver-colored metal with bezel-set turquoise; engraved lunate and triangular designs edged with zigzags.
Donor:
George Bangle and Mrs. George Bangle
Collection place:
Ouray Agency, Uintah County, Utah
Verbatim coll. place:
Utah; Ouray Agency
Culture or time period:
Mouache Ute, Navajo, and Ute
Collector:
John McAndrews
Collection date:
ca. 1884-1892
Object type:
ethnography
Function:
7.4 Non-issued Media of Exchange, Symbolic Valuables, and Associated Containers
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
width 3.8 centimeters
Comment:
In "The Navajo and Pueblo Silversmiths" (John Adair) in interviews with his informant Grey Moustache, Adair notes the following: "bracelets and rings of a yellowish color" were worn by the Utes and Southern Plains tribes who obtained the metals from the Indian traders to whom they sold hides"(p. 11); also see p. 6 "Some of the silver that the Navajo made they traded to the Utes" And Chee Dodge states that while at Ft. Sumner (1864-68) the Navajo had very little silver but lots of copper and brass which was pounded up into bracelets" (p. 5). Note: duplicate cards filed under Navajo and Ute. References: "Saponero and Colorow were chiefs in McAndrew''s time.