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Property from a Private San Francisco Collection, Lots 66-73
Lot 70

A Gail Bird & Yazzie Johnson pendant/pin

16 September 2019, 11:00 PDT
Los Angeles

Sold for US$1,530 inc. premium

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Gail Bird & Yazzie Johnson

Santo Domingo/Laguna, (b. 1949) & Navajo, (b. 1946), pin/pendant with a bezel-set coral cabochon above a tapering triangular-carved onyx stone set in textured and polished 18K gold.
length 4 1/4in, width 7/8in

Footnotes

The onyx possibly carved by German lapidary artist Dieter Lorenz, with whom Gail Bird and Yazzie Johnson began working in the early 1990s. See Diana F. Pardue's Shared Images: The Innovative Jewelry of Yazzie Johnson & Gail Bird, Museum of New Mexico Press, Santa Fe, NM, 2007, p. 79, pl. 51 for a similarly designed earring.

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