This previously unpublished 1922 photo of Witter Bynner alongside friends Patricio Calabazza and Rafael Lovato shows one of the men wearing a Santo Domingo necklace, revealing both pre-Depression dating and Bynner’s instant appreciation of such jewelry as the real deal. Note that the interesting necklace combines both tabs and shells. Courtesy Witter Bynner Foundation for Poetry

This previously unpublished 1922 photo of Witter Bynner alongside friends Patricio Calabazza and Rafael Lovato shows one of the men wearing a Santo Domingo necklace, revealing both pre-Depression dating and Bynner’s instant appreciation of such jewelry as the real deal. Note that the interesting necklace combines both tabs and shells. Courtesy Witter Bynner Foundation for Poetry