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Hopi silverwork, the most recent of the three traditions, uses a distinctive overlay technique developed in the 1930s and 1940s, in which designs drawn from traditional Hopi pottery and textiles are cut into a top layer of silver and soldered over a darkened, oxidised base layer. Each piece in this collection is individual. 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