This is a hammered copper pin of a horse, very abstract. It has a glaze that gives it multicolored speckles and keeps it from oxidizing. I bought this while on a trip to visit friends in Tumacacori, Arizona, a small mission south of Tucson. You may know that right near is the village of Tubac, something of an arts community. My friends were friends with a young woman and her husband, both O'odham/Hispanic who lived and worked there. The woman was a metalworker. She made this pin, and let me buy it. I think it was then that I began to realize that I really liked pins made in the likeness of animals. A large fraction of my pins and brooches are animals, including mammals, birds, insects, reptiles, and sealife.
I like to wear this pin against a black background. Here it is on a short black bomber-style jacket.
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