Alex Boone — Zuni Silversmith
Alex Boone works in mosaic inlay with his wife, Marylita Boone. Bille Hougart's Native American and Southwestern Silver Hallmarks lists him as "Alex Boone (Zuni)" and records that he shares his stamp with her (Hougart 2022, p. 67).
William and Sarah Turnbaugh's Indian Jewelry of the American Southwest shows a Zuni collar with mosaic inlay, "ca. 1985," that the couple, "of Zuni, New Mexico," made with matching earrings in silver, turquoise, red coral, black jet and yellow freshwater clamshell (Turnbaugh 2007, p. 56). Theda and Michael Bassman's Zuni Jewelry shows an inlay watchband of turquoise, coral, jet, mother-of-pearl and gold-lip mother-of-pearl that they made in 1988 (Bassman and Bassman 2006, p. 39).
His hallmark
Hougart gives the couple's shared marks as A & M BOONE and Alex + Marylita Boone Zuni N. Mex. (script) (Hougart 2022, p. 67). Two other marks on the same page are not his: A. BOONE belongs to an A. Boone listed as Kewa, and a bare BOONE to another Kewa entry (Hougart 2022, p. 67).
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References
- Hougart, Bille. Native American and Southwestern Silver Hallmarks: Silversmiths, Designers, Guilds and Traders. 5th edition. Washington, DC: BilleHougartBooks, 2022.
- Turnbaugh, William A., and Sarah Peabody Turnbaugh. Indian Jewelry of the American Southwest. Atglen, PA: Schiffer Publishing, 2007 (first published 1988).
- Bassman, Theda, and Michael Bassman. Zuni Jewelry. Photographs by Gene Balzer. Revised and expanded 3rd edition. Atglen, PA: Schiffer Publishing, 2006.
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