Genuine Turquoise Jewelry Heishi Bead Silver Necklace.

This Genuine Turquoise Jewelry Heishi Bead Silver Necklace is just full of natural character. This necklace features hand 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 Penn Shell artfully provide the spacing between Turquoise nuggets on this one. The Turquoise strand ends come together at the Silver cones. Non Indian made. This Turquoise necklace is 28-1/4" long.

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.