Native American Genuine Turquoise Sterling Silver Butterfly Pin

This Native American Turquoise Silver Butterfly Pendant is a gorgeous piece of hand made Navajo Indian jewelry. Turquoise jewelry like this is in style now for its elegance and natural beauty. This pin captures the gossamer qualities of the butterfly in the brilliance of Sterling Silver. This Sterling Silver butterfly holds gorgeous hand cut cabochons of genuine number one grade Sleeping Beauty Turquoise (the Tiffany of Turquoise). The Sterling Silver was hand cut and hand stamped with excellent skill and perfect detail. Native American jewelry artists often use Turquoise in their work to honor the Father Sky. The Turquoise perfectly compliments the shine of the Sterling Silver. this pin is 1-1/2" long and 1-7/8" wide. Stamped Sterling. Signed by the Navajo Indian artist FY.

The Navajo were the first of the southwestern Indians to produce metal jewelry. Around the mid-19th Century a Navajo Medicine Man, Atsidi Sani, convinced a Mexican blacksmith to teach him the art of working with metal. When the Navajo returned to their homeland in 1868 after their imprisonment at Fort Sumner, New Mexico, traders arrived in the area bringing silver coins with them. It was with these coins that the Navajo began to make silver jewelry.