Description
1950's William Spratling Necklace Modernistic Mexican Silver. 16", the chain by<br>itself is 12". Pendant part is 4" wide 1 3/16" wide at widest section. No<br>detectable issues, guaranteed authentic.<br><br>Spratling, an architect and artist who taught at Tulane University in New<br>Orleans, came to Mexico in the late 1920s and settled in the city of Taxco.<br>Having developed an interest in Mesoamerican archaeology and culture from his<br>colleagues at Tulane, he traveled to Mexico for several summers lecturing and<br>exploring. He sought out remote villages in the state of Guerrero, 110 miles<br>from Mexico City, where in some places Nahuatl, the Aztec language, was spoken.<br>Spratling collected artifacts and contemporary indigenous crafts.
