TURQUOISE SPINY OYSTER SILVER HAT PIN 0382
Dress your hat with a wearable work of art. This impressive hat pin features the lost wax Sterling Silver image of a monkey. The Sterling Silver monkey features an inlaid pattern at the center with a hand cut piece of genuine sky blue Sleeping Beauty Turquoise and a hand cut piece of genuine Spiny Oyster Shell. The Turquoise and Spiny Oyster give the Sterling Silver their natural beauty. This hat pin features a spring loaded backing to keep it secure. This pin will match perfectly with any other Silver jewelry that's already in your collection. Turquoise and Silver, you can't go wrong with that. This pin is 5/8" long and 5/8" wide. Stamped Sterling. The natural matrix of the gemstones may slightly vary.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. |