HUGE Hogan Home sculpture Navajo Tufa Cast Building Sterling Silver Ira Custer

Description

This One-of-a-Kind, Award Winning Miniature Hogan, Home, Native American Building, made by Ira Custer, is made from tufa casting techniques, earth, sand, leather. The firewood is made from twigs. The furniture is Sterling Silver and includes:
water trough
wrangling rope
rifle
Table, 2 cups, 2 dishes
2 stools
Wash stand & bowl
Stove with Coffee Pot
Grill for fire with cooking pan
Cot with Sleeping cat
Gasoline barrel
As with Ira Custer's well known and extensively collected jewelry, this item represents the ingenuity and creativity of a master silversmith.
Please see photos. Many more photos are available upon request.
Awards:
1st Place; Excellent Display, Great Artist Award, Santo Domingo
Show, 9-5-04
1st Prize, Gallup Inter-Tribal Indian Ceremonial, Gallup, NM, 2005
1st Place, Eight Northern Indian Pueblos Council Annual Artist &
Craftsman Show
1st Place; Sculpture, Tesoro Foundation, 2005, Indian Market &
Powwow,
Special Award, Gallup Inter-Tribal Indian Ceremonial, Don
Watson Memorial
Measurements: Hogan Roof: 8 3/4" diameter
Opening in roof: 1 1/4" diameter
Hogan: 7.5" diameter
Earth/wood base: 11 1/4 diameter
Rawhide door flap: 1 1/4" high x 1" wide
Smallest Silver piece: Cup; 1/4" high x 1/8" diameter
Largest Silver piece: Stove; 3 7/8"high x 1 1/8" long x 3/4"d
Overall weight of silver items: 122.9 grams (not including
the hogan structure)
Condition: Minor scratches on the sterling silver furniture. The hogan has
some loose sand, which is part of the concept of the hogan.
Please see photos.
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