Zuni Pueblo Maidens embody feminine strength, power of creation, nurturing and wisdom. Troy Sice's museum quality artwork demonstrates consummate carving and inlaying skills. He is an award-winning third-generation artist, the grandson of the late George Cheechee Haloo. Troy reaches back to a prehistoric Zuni tradition in the use of antler and different stone mediums for creating animal and human forms.
A Zuni Maiden Grandmother is identified by old-style whorls of hair and the wearing of a shawl, signifying she has not had a baby but has mothered many. Confident eyes are from inlaid jet and a red coral mouth speaks of the old ways. The way Troy worked the antler reveals clasping hands in prayer and even the shawl's soft folds. Azurite and pipestone paste decorate as well. Lovely turquoise, lapis lazuli, red coral, jet, coral, gold lip shell, pink mussel shell, pen shell and serpentine inlays are so colorful. Burnished mocassins or boots are inlaid with turquoise accents. Dimensions are about 2 1/8" tall, 1" wide and 5/8" deep.
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