
Ingmars Lindbergs
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See Pardue, Diana F., Shared Images: The Innovative Jewelry of Yazzie Johnson & Gail Bird, Museum of New Mexico Press, Santa Fe, NM, 2007, p. 38, pl. 13, for a similar example, dated 1980, in the collection of the Wheelright Museum in Santa Fe. "Johnson and Bird also created their first necklace with satellites, or small bezel-set stones that are inserted in the bead strands, for this show at the Dewey-Kofron Gallery. It was a trade bead necklace based on a South American milagro prototype... Johnson and Bird used the white heart beads because they were the most common beads traded to Native people throughout the world. Many cultures used them as the base of a necklace and added special tokens, amulets, or milagros. Johnson and Bird wanted to emulate the look rather than the symbolic intent." Ibid, p.37