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Ken Cory
'How to Fix Your Snake' Belt Buckle1976

Not on view
Small circular cloisonné enamel medallion in a brass rim, depicting the cropped lower body of a nude figure standing in stylized green and teal waves, holding a brown staff near a pale snake
Close-up of a scratched brass surface with raised block lettering reading "KEN CORY" above "1976."

Ken Cory, 'How to Fix Your Snake' Belt Buckle, 1976, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Gift of Lois and Bob Boardman, photo © Museum Associates / LACMA

Artist or Maker
Ken Cory
United States, Washington, Ellensburg 1943-1994
Title
'How to Fix Your Snake' Belt Buckle
Date Made
1976
Medium
Enamel on copper, brass
Dimensions
2 7/8 × 2 7/8 × 3/4 in. (7.3 × 7.3 × 1.91 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Lois and Bob Boardman
Accession Number
M.2014.198.55
Classification
Costumes
Collecting Area
Decorative Arts and Design
Selected Bibliography
  • Mills, Rosie Chambers and Bobbye Tigerman. Beyond Bling: Contemporary Jewelry from the Lois Boardman Collection. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Munich: DelMonico Books-Prestel, 2016.
  • Cummins, Susan, Damian Skinner, and Cindi Strauss. In Flux: American Jewelry and the Counterculture. Stuttgart: Arnoldsche Art, 2020.
  • Cummins, Susan, and Damian Skinner. North by Northwest: The Jewelry of Laurie Hall. Stuttgart: Arnoldsche, 2021.
Copyright
© Beverly Cory for the Estate of Ken Cory