Victor Moses Begay Vintage Navajo Sleeping Beauty Cluster Concho Belt

Victor Moses Begay Vintage Navajo Sleeping Beauty Cluster Concho Belt. Sleeping beauty snake eye and petit point settings in a cluster style concho belt. Round conchos and butterfly conchos on a 46.5" black leather belt. Rectangular sleeping beauty turquoise buckle. Buckle is 2.5" long and 2" tall. 

Artist Bio:

Diné of the Navajo Nation artist Victor Moses Begay is known for his precise silversmithing. He was actively making excellent jewelry between the 1950s through the 1980s. Victor Moses Begay signs his creations using his hallmark intials VMB.  He lived on the Navajo Reservation at Lukachukai, Arizona. Victor's jewelry was exhibited in the 1985 Lost and Found Traditions, a traveling exhibit of the American Federation of Arts. His jewelry in included in the collection of the Peabody Museum of Harvard University, and in the American Can Company Foundation in New York