Handmade off-white thick paper strips strung together creating an accordian effect, made from pieces off repeating thickness. The necklace is laid out as a large oval shape. The bottom portion of the necklace has various sized strips, causing a raised effect

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Mitla Necklace

This is a necklace. It was designed by Kiff Slemmons. It is dated 2012 and we acquired it in 2016. Its medium is handmade paper. It is a part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts department.

This is a unique piece made from paper from a workshop near Oaxaca, Mexico, that produces handmade paper. Particularly thick paper was made for this necklace, part of a series referring to ancient monuments in Oaxaca.

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

Neckpiece (Norway)
birch, rosewood, paint.
Museum purchase from Decorative Arts Association Acquisition Fund.
1991-52-1

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.: 3.2 × 26 cm (1 1/4 × 10 1/4 in.)

It has the following markings

No marks

Cite this object as

Mitla Necklace; Designed by Kiff Slemmons (American, b. 1944); handmade paper; H x diam.: 3.2 × 26 cm (1 1/4 × 10 1/4 in.); The Susan Grant Lewin Collection, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum; 2016-34-101

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/2kgsXa/
Accession Number 2016-34-101
Object ID 874387535