Award Winning Jicarilla Apache Beaded Bottle Vessel Provenance Native American

Feel free to send us offers or comments on our items or descriptions! Rare, First Premium Award Winning Jicarilla Apache Beaded Bottle / Vessel with Provenance.

This exceptional piece represents a rare opportunity to acquire an award-winning example of Jicarilla Apache beadwork with complete, documented provenance. FIRST PREMIUM WINNER - New Mexico State Fair, 1980. Original purple satin ribbon with gold text preserved. "Seal of the State of New Mexico, Charter 1912". Awarded highest honor in its category.

OFFICIAL JICARILLA APACHE CRAFTS TAG. Official cooperative stamp: "Jicarilla Apache Crafts, Box 507, Dulce, New Mexico 87528".

Red circular seal: "Official Seal of the Jicarilla Apache Turquoise Pueblo, New Mexico". Confirms authentic tribal origin through official cooperative. Artist: "Anita Vicente" (handwritten attribution). New Mexico State Fair official entry documentation. These came from the private collection of Whitfield Johnson, a noted authority on Indian Artifacts and former member of the Indian Artifacts Collectors Association of the Northeast.

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