Verma Nequatewa (Sonwai) Ebony, Vermillion Wood, Lone Mountain Turquoise, Lapis, Gold and Silver Cuff, 2020
Verma Nequatewa (Sonwai) Ebony, Vermillion Wood, Lone Mountain Turquoise, Lapis, Gold and Silver Cuff, 2020
$8,000.00
Description: An ebony, Vermillion wood, Lone Mountain turquoise, lapis, gold and sterling silver height inlay cuff, United States, 2020. One-of-a-kind.
Marks: Signed Sonwai and stamped with Sonwai maker's mark.
Dimensions: Cuff measures 5.25” from terminal to terminal with a 1.1” opening. Height inlay measures 1.05”.
Weight: 59.0 grams.
Biography
Verma Nequatewa is a Hopi master jeweler. She was born in 1949 in the same place where she currently lives and works - at Hotevilla, a village on Third Mesa, a part of the Hopi reservation near Holbrook, Arizona.