Native American Yellow Turquoise Silver Beaded Choker Necklace.

This Native American Yellow Turquoise Silver Beaded Choker Necklace is just full of natural character. This necklace has been beautifully hand strung in our shop by Navajo Indian jewelry artist Berlinda Begay. Berlinda strung this elegant choker with flat heptagon beads of genuine Yellow Turquoise. Each bead of this unique Turquoise delivers its natural yellow, green, brown, white, and black colors in a dazzling swirl and matrix. Just like snowflakes no two Yellow Turquoise beads are exactly alike. Shining plated Silver beads provide the spacing. And, plated Silver cones artfully adorn the ends. This Yellow Turquoise choker is 16-1/4" long.

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.

We understand the true value and nature of hand crafted Indian art. And, we recognize it's important to know that the artist is truly a member of a Native American tribe. So, to ensure you that this is the real deal, a Certificate of Authenticity has been included with this item.

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