VIDAL ARAGON Kewa Bracelet SOLD🥲

Description

• Fabulous Vidal Aragon Santo Domingo (Kewa) Sterling Silver Overlay Bracelet. Very detailed, with juxtaposed upper and lower trim pattern. 
• Vidal was born in 1923 and died in 2015.
• He obtained international recognition for his silver and overlay designs.
• Overlay pieces start when a sheet of silver which is hand cut and then soldered to a textured oxidized underlayer to highlight the cut work. 
• Vidal’s jewelry typically represents animals and pueblo life. 
• Vidal Aragon learned the overlay technique in the 1930s when he was a student at the Santa Fe Indian School. 
• Vidal lived in Scottsdale, Arizona for a short time, where he honed his skills as a shop smith. 
• By the early 1940s, Vidal was associated with such silversmiths as Ambrose Roanhorse and Tom Burnsides for their designs.
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