Large Gorget Style Necklace - moundbuilder serpent
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Large Gorget Style Necklace - moundbuilder serpent
Item: MGOR-EAGLE-NECK

This necklace feature mound builder eagle design..  These are transferred to the porcelain then hand painted with china paint.  They are all hand beaded. It is beaded with size 15 japanese seed beads and decorative copper beads. It is strung on a hand woven enameled copper chain.

This piece features a design element that was inspired by designs from gorgets, stone carvings or pots from the Mississippian period, which ranged from about 800 AD to around 1600 AD peaking about 1300-1600AD

The art from the central Mississippi valley includes a large variety of 'real world' beings such as fish, deer, rabbits, shells, gourds, and other animals as well as various mythical creatures as well as eagles, ravens and other creatures.. These were depicted with a varying degree of realism.