Turquoise and White Buffalo Kokopelli Earrings

Pair of post earrings, each a flat silhouetted humpbacked flute-player figure in a bent posture, one arm raised. Roughly five or six inlay pieces per earring, cut as rectangles and slightly curved trapezoids, are fitted flush into the body: bright turquoise blue alternating with white to off-white segments. Silver forms the outline, head, limbs and the fan-shaped element, with a small ball post above. Bright polished silver, no visible patina. Hung on a cream T-stand against light gray. Made by B. Joe, Navajo. One piece, held at the gallery in Santa Fe.