ATTENTION: Silversmiths and crafters. Make your own jewelry or carve a masterpiece. Let your imagination run wild. This is the perfect gift for someone with a creative mind. This is virtually a blank canvas. This Turquoise can be used for sculpting, inlay, making beads, or creating cabachons. This Turquoise could be used to make the centerpiece gemstones for almost any kind of lapidary work. This large block of Turquoise is 1/2 LB. The possibilities are endless. You are buying one block of what you see pictured. Stabilized block Turquoise.

In Indian folklore it is said that there was once a chief with turquoise colored skin. One day he was running from his enemies in the hot desert. Whenever he stopped to rest, his perspiration ran onto the ground, collected in rocks and became turquoise.

There are many legends about Turquoise; The Pima consider it to bring good fortune and strength and that it helped overcome illness. The Zuni believe that blue turquoise was male and of the sky and green turquoise was female and of the earth. Pueblo Indians thought that its color was stolen from the sky. In Hopi legend the lizard who travels between the above and the below, excretes turquoise and that the stone can hold back floods. The Apache felt that turquoise on a gun or bow made it shoot straight. The Navajo consider it as good fortune to wear and believe it could appease the Wind Spirit.