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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Taupou, post: 384819, member: 45&quot;]These are all authentic Zuni folk art items, made for the tourist trade.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>They have been making these beaded souvenirs for at least the last 80 years or so.&nbsp; Early ones were beaded over a rabbit&#039;s foot, a practice that pretty much ended in the 1970s.&nbsp; (As all_fakes pointed out, the slides are made from sheep vertebra.)&nbsp; The rabbit foot ones were made for key chains, or to dangle off the rear view mirror, when that was a common practice.</p><p><br /></p><p>Within the last decade or so, Chinese copies of the beaded &quot;skirts&quot; and &quot;chiefs&quot; flooded the markets in the southwest, so Zuni beaders started switching to larger, more elaborate little beaded sculptures...of every imaginable subject, including Zuni maidens, nuns, outhouses, and lots of different animals.&nbsp; Some of the early examples are on display in Santa Fe&#039;s Museum of International Folk Art.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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