Authentic Native American Navajo Knifewing Pin

Horse Training, Horse Care, and Riding Books and Videos from Cherry Hill at www.horsekeeping.com  Home | BooksArticles | Shopping | Contact | Site Map | Search

Belinda Woody - Navajo Sterling Silver
Knifewing Pin

HK Item #NPN781

Shopping  <   All Jewelry  <   Pins

Authentic Native American Sterling Silver Knifewing Pin by Belinda Woody

Height
1 3/4"
Width
1 7/8"
Material
Sterling Silver, Read about silver
Hallmarks
stamped:
BW
Sterling
© 95
Artist
Belinda Woody, Navajo

Questions or more details.

More New Pins

Pawn Pins

Bargain Barn Pins

Belinda Woody - Navajo
Sterling Silver Knifewing Pin

NPN781 - $69 plus s/h
(ONLY ONE AVAILABLE)

   View your  Horsekeeping Videos and Books shopping cart.

Authentic Native American Sterling Silver Knifewing Pin by Belinda Woody

Sterling silver necklace bead extender
Wear any Pin as a Pendant

Store Policies

Who is Knifewing?

Knifewing, also Knife Wing, is a half man - half eagle Zuni spirit or god with razor sharp feathers made of flint. He is the ultimate warrior.

Anthropologist Frank Hamilton Cushing, who lived with the Zunis from 1879-1884 described knifewing this way:

"This curious god is the hero of hundreds of folklore tales, the tutelary deity of several societies of Zuni. He is represented as possessing a human form, furnished with flint knife-feathered pinions, and tail. His dress consists of the conventional terraced cap (representative of his dwelling place among the clouds). His weapons are the Great Flint-Knife of War, the Bow of the Skies (the Rainbow), and the Arrow of Lightning. His guardians or warriors are the Great Mountain Lion of the North and that of the upper regions. He was doubtless the original War God of the Zunis."

Horace Iule (also known for his crosses) is credited with creating the first knifewing design in the late 1920s, cut and filed out of wrought silver. Afterwards, other Zuni, Navajo and Pueblo began producing knifewing designs. The knifewing became one of the first designs that the Zuni inlaid with stones.


Home | BooksArticles | Shopping | Contact | Site Map | Search

©  2015 Horsekeeping LLC   © Copyright Information