likely antique small Navaho silver bracelet - coin silver (~90% pure) and green turquoise
The bracelet dates generally from the “Fred Harvey Era” (1900 - 1960), when the Fred Harvey Company promoted Native American arts and crafts, particularly jewelry, to tourists traveling the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad. The square-shaped symbols are sacred Navajo emblems known as the whirling or swirling log. The symbol all but disappeared from Navajo artists’ wares after the 1930s, perhaps due to Nazi misappropriation, helping to date this piece likely prior to 1940.
likely antique small Navaho silver bracelet - coin silver (~90% pure) and green turquoise
The bracelet dates generally from the “Fred Harvey Era” (1900 - 1960), when the Fred Harvey Company promoted Native American arts and crafts, particularly jewelry, to tourists traveling the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad. The square-shaped symbols are sacred Navajo emblems known as the whirling or swirling log. The symbol all but disappeared from Navajo artists’ wares after the 1930s, perhaps due to Nazi misappropriation, helping to date this piece likely prior to 1940.
