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<p>[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 663599, member: 2844"]Lovely find, Peggy.</p><p><br /></p><p>The arrowhead is mother of pearl, the other pieces are turquoise and coral. It is a Zuni fetish and most likely Zuni made, a badger maybe?</p><p>The arrowhead is supposed to indicate a hunting connection, you see them on Zuni bear fetishes as well. The thought behind it is that animals that are good hunters can help humans while hunting.</p><p><br /></p><p>As far as I know the old, traditional Zuni fetishes didn't have those arrowheads, and they were added to make them look more interesting.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/wink.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=";)" unselectable="on" /></p><p>There are many collectors of Zuni and other SW NA fetishes, and these would have been made for them, not for Zuni use.</p><p><br /></p><p>The wolf is Zuni fetish as well, btw.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 663599, member: 2844"]Lovely find, Peggy. The arrowhead is mother of pearl, the other pieces are turquoise and coral. It is a Zuni fetish and most likely Zuni made, a badger maybe? The arrowhead is supposed to indicate a hunting connection, you see them on Zuni bear fetishes as well. The thought behind it is that animals that are good hunters can help humans while hunting. As far as I know the old, traditional Zuni fetishes didn't have those arrowheads, and they were added to make them look more interesting.;) There are many collectors of Zuni and other SW NA fetishes, and these would have been made for them, not for Zuni use. The wolf is Zuni fetish as well, btw.[/QUOTE]
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