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<p>[QUOTE="Taupou, post: 118137, member: 45"]EBay listings should probably not be used as a trusted reference when it comes to identifying Native American items. And most of the web sites that come up on a search these days seem to be based on eBay listings, accurate or not. When other sellers use those eBay listings for their own items, it doesn't take long before the whole process degenerates into a guessing game.</p><p><br /></p><p>Reputable museum collections, on line specialty boards or forums devoted to the subject in question, and print references are a better choice.</p><p><br /></p><p>Both <u>The Beauty of Hopi Jewelry</u> and Wright's <u>Hallmarks of the Southwest</u>, and the Online Encyclopedia of Silver Marks, Hallmarks & Makers' Marks, confirm Alvin Sosolda is Pima, and that he is married to a Hopi woman. Which means, if he follows the Hopi tribal tradition, he moved to her home, and was more likely influenced by the jewelry style of Hopi jewelry makers. (And because the Hopi are a matrilineal culture, his children would be raised Hopi, even if they were not enrolled members of the tribe.)</p><p><br /></p><p>The man in the maze is a traditional Pima image, however, despite what the eBay listing in the link claims. And since Sosolda is Pima, his tribal affiliation is Pima, and his work cannot be sold as Hopi, even if he lives there, and his family is Hopi.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Taupou, post: 118137, member: 45"]EBay listings should probably not be used as a trusted reference when it comes to identifying Native American items. And most of the web sites that come up on a search these days seem to be based on eBay listings, accurate or not. When other sellers use those eBay listings for their own items, it doesn't take long before the whole process degenerates into a guessing game. Reputable museum collections, on line specialty boards or forums devoted to the subject in question, and print references are a better choice. Both [U]The Beauty of Hopi Jewelry[/U] and Wright's [U]Hallmarks of the Southwest[/U], and the Online Encyclopedia of Silver Marks, Hallmarks & Makers' Marks, confirm Alvin Sosolda is Pima, and that he is married to a Hopi woman. Which means, if he follows the Hopi tribal tradition, he moved to her home, and was more likely influenced by the jewelry style of Hopi jewelry makers. (And because the Hopi are a matrilineal culture, his children would be raised Hopi, even if they were not enrolled members of the tribe.) The man in the maze is a traditional Pima image, however, despite what the eBay listing in the link claims. And since Sosolda is Pima, his tribal affiliation is Pima, and his work cannot be sold as Hopi, even if he lives there, and his family is Hopi.[/QUOTE]
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