Native American Jewelry Turquoise Yellow Calcite Silver Necklace.

This Native American Jewelry Turquoise Yellow Calcite Silver Necklace is a true piece of natural beauty. This gorgeous hand made necklace features large, beautiful faceted nuggets of genuine Yellow Calcite. Sweet & Petite, genuine blue Turquoise flat nuggets provide contrasting colors and spacing between the Yellow Calcite nuggets. Shimmering Sterling Silver cones dress both ends of this one with a beautiful shine. Made in our shop by Navajo Indian jewelry artist Berlinda Begay. This necklace is 19-1/2" long. Stamped Sterling.

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.