German Silver Gorget

SKU: 4010.08.01

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Thunder Warrior's German Silver cloud-shaped Gorget with rocker-engraved designs and 3 najas along the bottom, handcrafted by a prominent German Plains artist Norbert Kohlruss at Travels Far Trading in 2008. Just for demonstration, not for sale.

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Museum-quality reproduction of mid- 19th century german silver gorget with rocker engraved decoration, featuring Thunderbird design in the center and, following the scalloped edges, with three domed naja pendants suspended below. Artificially aged to look and feel like a real old artefact from the Buffalo days.

Made by: Norbert Kohlruss (Travels Far Trading)

Manufacture year: 2008

Tribal style: Cheyenne, Lakota, Northern Cheyenne, Southern Cheyenne

Finishing: Artificial patina

Metal: German Silver (GS)

Materials: Trade silver *

Metacollcection: Plains

Collection: Central Plains

Insignia type: Gorget

Warrior society: Thunder Warriors

☩ The focal portion of the «German Silver Gorget SKU 4010.08.01» in the shape of a cloud portrays an image of the Thunderbird. Besides, 3 crescents or najas hanging down from a lower edge are symbolically analogs of Thunderbird's talons, as seen on war shields of both Sioux and Cheyenne. In terms of Cheyenne or Sioux iconography that alltogether would represent a «Thundercloud» with the «talons» as lightning striking downward.

☩ Like a number of other items from my Plains Indian collection, where I gather only the best specimens of Indian Warrior art and do not have much desire to part with them, «German Silver Gorget SKU 4010.08.01» is not intended for sale and if occasionally someone be interested to buy it, I will be ready to sell only at a price indicated here as a fair minimum for such a splendid work.