Necklace with Crescent-Shaped Pendant
This necklace includes a crescent-shaped pendant with a turquoise in the center of it. In the Dine language (sometimes called Navajo), these pendants were called naja, or crescent. Many scholars believe that these pendants were influenced by Islamic designs, descended through...
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Artifact
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3445
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contentType
object
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stage
normalized
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| provenance |
provenance
Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown, brought from Arizona]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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rightsUri
CC0
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language
en
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pageCount
3
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source
import
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Terms
Medium
silver, turquoise
Genre
necklaces