Bangle - Navajo Motif, United States

A slender cuff wearing a dark chevron ribbon around its middle.

This sterling silver bangle with Navajo motif is Navajo, from the United States, and is contemporary. Sterling silver bracelets in the Southwestern tradition are often decorated with patterns made by stamping, filing and twisting wire, and the motifs are generally abstract or geometric. A thin open bracelet with smooth bright rims and a blackened central channel stamped with a repeating pattern of zigzags and diamonds. The ends taper slightly, and the polished edges are crisp and clean. It is 2.5 inches long, 0.25 deep and 1.75 high.

Small, tidy, and thoroughly sure of its zigzags.