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E-Mail:
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877-909-8794 (or locally
802-362-3435)
A reminder:
Please scroll down, and CLICK ON ANY IMAGE TO ENLARGE.
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November, 2010
Dear Friends, Collectors, and Scholars;
It is with great pleasure that we present here three wonderful Denise and Samuel
Wallace “Storytelling” belts, and a fourth belt created by their daughter and
son. The belts are extremely important masterpieces of Native American Art from
the 20th
century which chronicle a way of life that is rapidly vanishing. Only once
before has one of these amazing belts been sold by an original collector—and
that was in the year 2000, to an esteemed museum in California. The last full
belt was created in 1997. Over the years the belts have been the inspiration for
most of the Wallace's body of work, with segments being reproduced as limited
edition pins, pendants, earrings and belt buckles, many of which you will find
familiar.
Below are quick views and comments on the
available belts; please use the links for more photographs and more detailed
information on each belt.
Prices are available by request to Grant or Betsy
Turner at 877-909-8794 or 802-362-3435.
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Name:
King Island Dancer Belt
Date: 1989
What's notable about this piece:
Always in a private,
professionally-curated collection, this belt remains brand-new (after twenty
years). It has been featured in advertising, used as an illustration for
cultural anthropology and was a key part of the museum exhibit "Arctic
Transformation: The Jewelry of Denise and Samuel Wallace."
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Name:
Seal Hunting Belt
Date: 1986
What's notable about this piece: This belt was created in the period
just after Denise and Wally began exploring the new idea of using a belt as
a collection of separate pieces depicting Native Alaskan Life - it is an
explosion of artistic creativity, and with all these new ideas fleshed out it
is perhaps the most appealing belt to many of Denise's admirers.
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Name:
Originally
”Alaska, The Land and Spirit of
My People”
Date: November, 1984
What's notable about this piece:
This is
"The Missing Link" in Denise
Wallace Jewelry. Secreted away by the private owner since new in late
1984, this is belt is the bridge between the Wallace's early use of
geometric designs and their subsequent decision to depict Denise's
Alaskan heritage in their jewelry. There is only one other belt with
work on two sides of each segment.
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