Turquoise Sterling Silver Pendant and Earrings.

This pendant and earrings set is beautiful and fashionable. This pendant features an elegant lost wax design in shimmering Sterling Silver. It features a gorgeous hand cut cabochon of genuine Turquoise. Suspended from a complimentary chain, this pendant is 1-1/2" long and 3/8" wide. The matching post earrings are 1-1/8" long. The matrix in the Turquoise may slightly vary. The photo is an excellent representation of the one of a kind hand crafted pendant you'll receive.

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.