Native American Snowy Owl Pendant Brooch for sale in Houston Texas

$300.00

RARE, OLD Native American Snowy Owl solid silver inlaid pendant/brooch featuring mother of pearl, jet, red coral, turquoise. SIGNED by ZUNI silversmith ANN SHEYKA (1943-), wife of deceased PORFILIO SHEYKA (1938-1982). One of ANN SHEYKA's pieces is featured in the SMITHSONIAN NATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN. Pieces have been on exhibition in "ART OF THE ZUNI" at the KENNEDY MUSEUM of ART's Edwin L. and Ruth E. Kennedy Southwest Native American Collection. They are featured in the following sources: Bassman, Theda. ZUNI JEWELRY. West Chester, PA: Schiffer Publishing Ltd., 1992, p. 31, Levy, Gordon. WHO'S WHO IN ZUNI JEWELRY. Denver: Western Arts Publishing Co., 1980, p. 17, Schaaf, Gregory. AMERICAN INDIAN JEWELRY I: 1200 Artist Biographies. Santa Fe, NM: CIAC Press, 2003, p. 287, Schiffer, Nancy. JEWELRY BY SOUTHWEST AMERICAN INDIANS: EVOLVING DESIGNS. West Chester, PA: Schiffer Publishing Ltd., 1990, p. 100, Wright, Barton. HALLMARKS OF THE SOUTHWEST. Atglen, PA: Schiffer Publishing Ltd., 2000, p. 154.

Very rare - in MINT condition

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