Navajo Artisan - ALLISON MANUELITO- Small Sterling "Corn Maiden" Charm Earrings - Very Wearable!
Navajo Artisan - ALLISON MANUELITO- Small Sterling "Corn Maiden" Charm Earrings - Very Wearable!
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ABOUT THE ZUNI PUEBLO CORN MAIDEN:
Corn is one of the most sacred plants known to Native American cultures on both continents, North and South America, where this staple has been a main food source for the native communities since time unknown.The Corn Maidens play a special role, symbolizing the prayers of the people for a bountiful harvest.The Corn Maidens of Zuni personify the bounty of life giving corn that grows in six different colors & in Zuni tradition, long ago Corn-Maidens saved the Zunis from famine and drought by nourishing them with sacred corn kernels from their bodies.
There are 3 Maidens: The young unmarried woman who will have whorls of hair on the side of her head, signifying that she has not had a child. The mother fetish also can be emerging from the corn (the corn mother) and she will have children with her or look pregnant. The grandmother usually has a shawl over her head and no corn represented on her body.
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THE EARRINGS:
Though the "Corn Maiden" is known more to the Puebloan people, Navajo artisan "Allison Manuelito" gets her inspiration from her close Zuni Pueblo neighbors.
These Maiden's are delicately cast in a wearable art form, where they are shown with their hair whorls,their manta shawl that cover their corn kernel bodies to keep warm.
They are small & super wearable in weight, while still being big enough to show off your love for the Native culture.They'll make a great 'go-to' earring that can be worn with an all sterling collection or one of colored stone!
**Normally I take a photo showing how the earrings look when they're on & for some reason I must have missed these! So if you need to see them on, please email me & I would be happy to provide one! **
ARTIST: ALLISON MANUELITO
TRIBE: NAVAJO
MEASUREMENTS: 1-7/8" x 1/2"(From ear wire's curvature to bottom tip)
CORN MAIDEN WITHOUT EAR WIRE: 1-3/8" X 1/2"
COMBINED WEIGHT: 7.5 GRAMS
METAL: STERLING
METAL FINISHING: CONTEMPORARY
HALLMARK: AM-STERLING
COME GIFT BOXED
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**To give you close ups,pictures tend to look much more larger & much more more magnified than in actuality. Close up's make the item look so large & then you get it in hand & you are shocked since the item is much smaller than how they looked in the photos..So to get an accurate idea of how big these are, you can pull out a tape measure & compare to my given measurements.
