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Prayers for rain are answered on the sacred wind of Thunderbird’s fan, his feathers bearing bolts of lightning and the music of thunder and the purifying power of the storm. With this contemporary concha buckle, Wings honors the sacred medicine of sky ceremony, water as life and breath and healing. This buckle is wrought in an old traditional style, infused with a contemporary yet timeless spirit, the concha form and shape rendered via meticulous freehand saw-work. The feather-like “rays” above and below are all formed via such freehand cutwork, as well as scorework and stampwork, the edges all meticulously scalloped in a radiant design that evokes the Sunface being, the traditional headdress, and Thunderbird’s own powerful wings, all arrayed in the honor fan’s arc. The cross-shaped center is freed of the surrounding silver by similarly freehand saw-work, the surface texturized by hand via hundreds of strikes of the jeweler’s hammer on a single tiny divot-end stamp, the resulting tribute to the winds and the sacred directions both richly textured and as shimmery as the water’s surface. At center, oriented on the horizontal, a highly domed oval cabochon of natural Fox turquoise from Nevada rests in a bezel wrought entirely by hand, its scalloped edges all cut individually. The stone itself is brilliant sky blue stippled throughout with “clouds” of off-white host rock, darkening here and there with the storm in the form of black chert and red siltstone matrix. On the reverse, peg and loop are both created by hand of solid sterling silver. Buckle is roughly 2-1/2″ across by some 2-1/4″ high; cabochon is 2/4″ – 7/8″ across by 5/8″ high; loop on reverse is 1/4″ wide (all dimensions approximate. From Wings’s limited three-work series, the Sky Ceremony Collection; coordinates with Warbonnet Sky Cuff Bracelet and Eagle Plume Rain Bolo. Other views, including all three matching works, shown below.
Sterling silver; natural Fox turquoise; black leather
$1,575 + shipping, handling, and insurance
SOLD
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