Five Strand Native American Genuine Turquoise Jewelry Heishi Bead White Clam Shell Sterling Silver Necklace

This Five Strand Native American Genuine Turquoise Jewelry Heishi Bead White Clam Shell Sterling Silver Necklace is just full of natural character. This necklace features nuggets of genuine Turquoise. Each nugget of this Turquoise offers this necklace their natural blue-green colors and earth tone matrix to this sensational necklace. Just like snowflakes, no two Turquoise stones are exactly alike making every Turquoise necklace a true one of a kind piece of hand made wearable art. Hand made Heishi beads of genuine Clam Shell artfully provide the spacing between Turquoise nuggets on this one. The Turquoise strand ends come together at the Sterling Silver cones with hook-eye and comb ends. Hand-strung by Native Americans Berlinda Begay and Lula. This five strand Turquoise necklace is 33" long. You will be receiving one of the items in the pictures below.

Turquoise has been, since about 200 B.C., extensively used by southwestern U.S Native Americans and by many of the Indian tribes in Mexico. The Native American Jewelry or "Indian style" jewelry with turquoise mounted in or with silver is relatively new. Some believe this style of Jewelry was unknown prior to about 1880, when a white trader persuaded a Navajo craftsman to make turquoise and silver jewelry using coin silver. Prior to this time, the Native Americans had made solid turquoise beads, carvings, and inlaid mosaics. Recently, turquoise has found wide acceptance among people of all walks of life and from many different ethnic groups.