Navajo Indian Style Genuine Turquoise Nugget Traditional Sterling Silver Belt Buckle ( CLASSIC ) 0022-BB-NEW
Navajo Indian Style Genuine Turquoise Nugget Traditional Sterling Silver Belt Buckle.
This Turquoise Belt Buckle is an impressive work of wearable art. This Navajo style buckle features a generous portion of genuine Sleeping Beauty Turquoise nuggets. This Turquoise delivers the natural color of the sky to this fine hand made buckle. This one was hand cut out of a shining sheet of Sterling Silver. Hand made Sterling Silver dots fill in the areas between Turquoise nuggets with a high shine. A hand twisted Sterling Silver wire gives this piece of Turquoise jewelry the right touch of detail. Turquoise and Silver, you can't go wrong with that. Made in our shop. This Turquoise buckle is 3-1/2" wide and 3" tall with a 1-1/2" wide keeper on the back. Stamped Sterling and signed by the artist. Turquoise nuggets may slightly vary. You'll receive one 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 believe that it helps 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. | 