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Norman Honie Sr Hopi overlay blue gem turquoise thunderbird pendant/pin sterling. Nice vintage (third quarter of 20th century) pendant, no issues. Solid sterling silver with weight and measurements in pictures.
Norman Honie Sr. was born in the 1920s at Hano, First Mesa, Hopi Pueblo in Arizona. He learned his craft at the Hopi Silvercraft Cooperative Guild and began making jewelry in the 1960s. He was also a katsina doll carver. He was the recipient of numerous awards including a first place award at the Hopi Show at the Museum of Northern Arizona in 1967. His work is in museum collections and has been published in Arizona Highways (June, 1971). Norman Honie Sr. signed with the sun symbol of the Hopi Crafts Guild on one earring and Honie‘s hallmark of a spider on the other.
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