A cascading pendent of miniature elements sculpted and assembled floral forms, architectural scrolls, and several wheels that rotate, one with a centered star with imbedded diamonds. Elements are natural and synthetic, created and found, suspended from a rigid metal wire necklace with a hook clasp and short chain with small bone pendent. Elements are contrasting tints of light and medium ivory hues.

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	We acquired this object.
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Whorl Pendant Neckpiece

This is a Neckpiece. It was designed by Jennifer Trask. It is dated 2010. Its medium is carved cow and ox bone, snake vertebrae, resin, plastic (found objects), diamonds, gold, silver . It is a part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts department.

Bones and visceral animal parts are symbols of life and death that are part of Trask’s powerful vocabulary. In her Whorl Pendant she creates an amalgam of carved cow and ox bone, snake vertebrae and found plastic objects as well as diamond encrusted wheels that suggest elements of permanence amidst the transience of life.

It is credited Promised gift to the Susan Grant Lewin Collection, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.