Description:

**Originally Listed At $400**

Native American, Southwestern United States, Santo Domingo Pueblo, ca. 1970s to early 1980s CE. A pretty and wearable double strand turquoise, coral, and shell bead Jacla necklace, finished with silver terminal beads and a hook clasp. This piece was allegedly made by Ray Lovato, an award-winning jeweler, who hand-turns / carves his own heishi beads - although Lovato often leaves the terminal ends as bare cotton threads and this piece has silver beads with a hook clasp. Size: 16" L (40.6 cm); central shell beads: 0.45" Diameter x 0.2" W (1.1 cm x 0.5 cm)

While this is strung as a choker necklace, the short double strands were probably once a Pueblo adornment known as a Jacla, which are two loops of heishi beads worn as earrings or fastened to the bottom of a necklace as a pendant ornament.

Please note this item falls under the Safeguard Tribal Objects of Patrimony Act and is not eligible for international shipping. Native American, Alaska Native, & Native Hawaiian objects are only eligible to ship within the United States.

Provenance: private Alamo, California, USA collection, acquired in New Mexico, USA in 1981

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  • Condition: Minor chips to beads, otherwise intact wearable. Areas of dark patina and toning on the silver.

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