Shop
  • SHOP FALL COLLECTION

  • apparel
  • Add description, images, menus and links to your mega menu

  • A column with no settings can be used as a spacer

  • Link to your collections, sales and even external links

  • Add up to five columns

  • Add description, images, menus and links to your mega menu

  • A column with no settings can be used as a spacer

  • Link to your collections, sales and even external links

  • Add up to five columns

  • Necklace, Thunderbird Depression, Multi Stone, Santo Domingo, Vintage, ‘40s, 1775


    DEPRESSION-ERA JEWELRY NEVER CEASES TO AMAZE US. 


    Southwestern Santo Domingo-style jewelry is not only beautiful but almost baffling. This vibrant vintage battery bird necklace was crafted from tiny turquoise scraps, bits of gypsum, pieces of red plastic, and various found objects (such as car battery casings). Crafted in the traditional style, it's centered by a colorful thunderbird accented by a series of coordinating triangular tabs on a strand of gypsum beads. The resourcefulness of these post-war jewelry artisans is nothing short of remarkable. As they say, one man's trash is another man's treasure!

  • affiliation: Santo Domingo
  • materials: gypsum, turquoise, various recycled resins
  • dimensions: length: 22", pendant: 2 3/8"
  • weight: 79 grams
  • closure: hook & eye
  • nice vintage condition
  • no missing stones
  • light glue residue
  • light wear from ethnographic use 
  • style: JN1775
  • in stock
    All returns on jewelry are subject to exchange or store credit only

    Product Disclaimers