Native American Turquoise Silver Hair Combs.

Twirl and curl your locks with style. This pair of hair combs are decked out with Southwest designs, hand stamped Sterling Silver and genuine Sleeping Beauty Turquoise nuggets. The robins egg blue color of this Turquoise beautifully compliments the white shine of the Sterling Silver. These hair combs are 3" long and 1-5/8" wide. Stamped Sterling. Turquoise stones and hand stamped designs may slightly vary. You'll be getting a pair from the group pictured below.

In Indian folklore it is said that there was once a chief with turquoise colored skin. One day he was running from his enemies in the hot desert. Whenever he stopped to rest, his perspiration ran onto the ground, collected in rocks and became turquoise.

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.

The Navajo were the first to produce jewelry that required the working of metal. Their love of metal working can be traced to the Spanish arrival in the Southwest. The silver bridles and horse trappings of the Conquistadors were admired and often stolen by the raiding Navajos. Later when the area became part of Mexico, Mexican silversmiths traded jewelry to wealthy Navajo for sheep. Jewelry became a symbol of wealth.

Comes with certificate of authenticity.

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