VTG Post WWII Era Native American Hopi Water Wave Design Turquiose Inlay Brooch

  

Vintage Post WWII Era Native American Hopi Water Wave Design Turquiose Inlay Brooch, 1.5, 11.3g Tested. In the 1950's Woodard's Indian Shop in Gallup, New Mexico, became a notable center for the production of high-quality Native American jewelry. They adapted contemporary design techniques of the era, specifically overlay designs used at the Hopi Guild and had them made into pins and earrings by Navajo silversmiths.

One of their templates featured a Hopi water wave design and an area where one triangular turquoise stone would be set flush into one quadrant. In 1949 the Hopi Silvercraft Guild was formed and by the mid-1950s overlay was the only technique used by Guild silversmiths as the use of sheet silver became commonplace.