Necklace
Decorative Arts and Design
Norman Mizuno began making jewelry as a child in his native Hawaii, helping his mother fashion pieces from tropical seeds and nuts for the tourist trade. According to the artist, the beads that constitute this necklace, which he terms "clay body jewelry," were made between 1972 and 1980 and then reconfigured in 1990. Mizuno cites a wide variety of influences, from ancient Egyptian and Mayan artifacts to Las Vegas showgirl costumes.
MEDIUM
Glazed earthenware, metal, textile
DATES
ca. 1990
DIMENSIONS
13 1/2 x 9 x 3/4 in. (34.3 x 22.9 x 1.9 cm) (show scale)
COLLECTIONS
Decorative Arts and Design
ACCESSION NUMBER
1996.31
CREDIT LINE
Gift of the artist and Alan J. Davidson
CATALOGUE DESCRIPTION
Necklace: An intricate and broad fan-shaped beaded bib with two large centered hollow hemispherical open-mouthed faces with a double row of alternating disc and diamond shaped ceramic beads strung between them, and below that a bead of a figural pig's face is also strung; each central face is connected on the top and outer side to a string with double strung spherical beads, two small tube beads and with figural pig's faces on the top and figural face's on the sides, which together are used to secure the necklace around the neck and around the chest; the central faces and central pig's face each have four strands of suspended beads, while the outer figural faces each have three strands of suspended beads; each strand is comprised of a tube bead, a spherical bead, three disc beads, a circular bead with a central dot, a bow-shaped bead with two dots, a spherical bead, an eye bead, and a bell.
MUSEUM LOCATION
This item is not on view
CAPTION
Norman Mizuno (American, born 1948). Necklace, ca. 1990. Glazed earthenware, metal, textile, 13 1/2 x 9 x 3/4 in. (34.3 x 22.9 x 1.9 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of the artist and Alan J. Davidson, 1996.31. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 1996.31_PS9.jpg)
IMAGE
overall, 1996.31_PS9.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph, 2013
"CUR" at the beginning of an image file name means that the image was created by a curatorial staff member. These study images may be digital point-and-shoot photographs, when we don\'t yet have high-quality studio photography, or they may be scans of older negatives, slides, or photographic prints, providing historical documentation of the object.
RIGHTS STATEMENT
Creative Commons-BY
You may download and use Brooklyn Museum images of this three-dimensional work in accordance with a Creative Commons license. Fair use, as understood under the United States Copyright Act, may also apply.
Please include caption information from this page and credit the Brooklyn Museum. If you need a high resolution file, please fill out our online application form (charges apply).
For further information about copyright, we recommend resources at the United States Library of Congress, Cornell University, Copyright and Cultural Institutions: Guidelines for U.S. Libraries, Archives, and Museums, and Copyright Watch.
For more information about the Museum's rights project, including how rights types are assigned, please see our blog posts on copyright.
If you have any information regarding this work and rights to it, please contact copyright@brooklynmuseum.org.
RECORD COMPLETENESS
Not every record you will find here is complete. More information is available for some works than for others, and some entries have been updated more recently. Records are frequently reviewed and revised, and we welcome any additional information you might have.
