Rough Turquoise 4 oz Genuine Kingman Nuggets 6230-TC
Rough Turquoise 4 oz Genuine Kingman Nuggets.
The limits are as boundless as your imagination! These are medium sized nuggets of stabilized and tumbled Kingman Turquoise. These loose Kingman Turquoise nuggets are indeed a clean slate with millions of possibilities, and still bear the natural markings of natural Turquoise. These Kingman Turquoise nuggets are meant for inlay work and for creating cabachons, and will be sold in packages of 4 ounces. This loose Kingman Turquoise is perfect for creating the centerpiece gemstones of virtually any kind of lapidary work, and for making gorgeous beads. 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. |