A necklace consisting of handmade, rectangular, stacked paper strips. At the top of the neck the paper strips are beige, moving to crimson, and then to dark brown where the necklace sits on the chest. The necklace is displayed on a dark grey rectangular stand.

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Ojo de Agua Necklace

This is a necklace. It was designed by Kiff Slemmons. It is dated 2005 and we acquired it in 2016. Its medium is handmade paper. It is a part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts department.

Ojo de Agua, meaning "eye of water" or "watering hole," is an early example of Slemmons's ongoing work with the Taller Arte Papel paper workshop in Oaxaca, Mexico. Her explorations in jewelry of handmade paper began about fifteen years ago, with an invitation from Francisco Toledo of the workshop to teach designs that the paper artisans could reproduce. That project evolved into "many layers of production and collaboration."

This object was donated by Susan Lewin. It is credited The Susan Grant Lewin Collection, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.

Necklace
stamped paper discs strung together.
Gift of Vicki Halper in honor of Marion Gartler.
2016-42-2

Necklace
gold, silver.
Museum purchase from Decorative Arts Association Acquisition Fund.
1993-114-8

Necklace
paper.
Museum purchase from Decorative Arts Association Acquisition Fund.
1993-114-9

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Rolodex Open Rotary Card File
bent tubular metal, molded plastic, rubber, paper.
Gift of Rolodex Corporation.
1996-14-2

This necklace is made of silver, covered with dense, overlapping rows of hammered, flattened feather-like steel nails. There is a row of small, gold pod forms along inner edge, and for the clasp, it is large and covered by roughly square pale rose mother-of-pearl with gold fastenings. Although made of metal, the necklace gives the appearance of dark, slender feathers, with the inner collar dense with dark gold clasps, where the pods and steel nails are attached.

Necklace (Norway)
steel, gold, silver, mother-of-pearl.
Museum purchase from Decorative Arts Association Acquisition Funds and....
1984-83-1

Its dimensions are

H x diam.: 1.2 × 32 cm (1/2 × 12 5/8 in.)

It has the following markings

No marks

Cite this object as

Ojo de Agua Necklace; Designed by Kiff Slemmons (American, b. 1944); handmade paper; H x diam.: 1.2 × 32 cm (1/2 × 12 5/8 in.); The Susan Grant Lewin Collection, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum; 2016-34-100

This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Jewelry of Ideas: Gifts from the Susan Grant Lewin Collection.

Short URL http://cprhw.tt/o/2kgsX6/
Accession Number 2016-34-100
Object ID 874387531