Tableta dancers Sammi Gonzales (left) and Raeita Gonzales (right), with son, San Ildefonso Pueblo, New Mexico, September 11, 1955. Photograph by Harold Kellogg. Palace of the Governors Photo Archives (NMHM/DCA), Neg. No. 077486. These sisters wear matching tabletas and matching Santo Domingo necklaces. Santo Domingo’s Depression-era jewelry employs bold graphics and brightly colored plastic (such as red Dairy Queen spoons) that appealed to their pueblo neighbors’ aesthetic sensibilities. Note the design similarities in the angles of the Thunderbird pendants and the tabletas, which would have been brightly painted.

Tableta dancers Sammi Gonzales (left) and Raeita Gonzales (right), with son, San Ildefonso Pueblo, New Mexico, September 11, 1955. Photograph by Harold Kellogg. Palace of the Governors Photo Archives (NMHM/DCA), Neg. No. 077486. These sisters wear matching tabletas and matching Santo Domingo necklaces. Santo Domingo’s Depression-era jewelry employs bold graphics and brightly colored plastic (such as red Dairy Queen spoons) that appealed to their pueblo neighbors’ aesthetic sensibilities. Note the design similarities in the angles of the Thunderbird pendants and the tabletas, which would have been brightly painted.