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Regular price $340.00 Save $-340.00This special Hopi Corn Maiden pendant was made in the traditional overly style (More about Corn Maidens below). We love her traditional Hopi buns and the beautiful corn kernals. She comes with an 18" sterling silver chain. A Hopi hallmark is on the back.
Overlay jewelry is made by sawing out two sheets of metal the same, in this case sterling silver. Hopi jewelers texture the bottom sheet with hatch marks. The bottom sheet is then oxidized to turn it black. The design on the top sheet is carefully sawed out with a fine jeweler's saw and the edges are filed smooth. The top is then soldered onto the bottom piece. It is then polished to a high sheen.
Size: 2.25" H x .875" W
Female corn beings represent all that is good about being a woman: loving, generous, nurturing, kind, strong with great compassion. In tribes that traditionally grow corn, most of the stories are the similar. There are many Indigenous stories about how corn was brought to the people at a time when there was hunger and how a sacred, sometimes other worldly, female being brought them corn. There are dances to honor the female corn beings in many of the Pueblos. And in other tribes, she is held in a place of great honor.