Native Warrior Silver Cuff Bracelet

Lean stick-figure warriors stride, lunge, and draw their bows across the bright face of this broad cuff, cut as a scatter of dark oxidized outline so the whole band reads as a frieze caught mid-motion. The Native Warrior is one of Antonio Pineda's figural designs, rooted in prehistoric Mexican imagery, and it gives a heavy piece of silver a quick, graphic lightness.

The band is wide and gently waisted, tapering toward the back, its surface left smooth and high so the figures float free against the metal rather than sitting inside any frame. The energy comes entirely from the drawing — the splayed limbs and bent backs of the running men — set off by black line against polished silver.

It is worked in 970 silver and carries Pineda's Antonio-Taxco crown mark together with the inventory code ZZ717, the ZZ prefix marking a bracelet in the workshop numbering system recorded by Stromberg. The figures are crisply oxidized into the metal, the recesses darkened so each warrior holds its line cleanly.

Much of Pineda's celebrated output runs to abstract, sculptural form — repeated bars, waves, and cabochons — which makes this narrative, figural cuff an uncommon register for his hand, the same precise discipline turned to a moving human frieze rather than pure geometry.