Three Strand Genuine Turquoise Jewelry Heishi Bead Silver Necklace.

This Three Strand Genuine Turquoise Jewelry Heishi Bead Silver Necklace is just full of natural character. This necklace features three hand strung strands of Genuine Turquoise Howlite nuggets. Each nugget of this Turquoise offers this necklace their dyed blue-green Turquoise colors and natural markings to this sensational necklace. Just like snowflakes, no two Turquoise stones are exactly alike making every necklace a true one of a kind piece of hand made wearable art. Hand made Heishi beads of genuine Strawberry Clam Shell artfully provide the spacing between Turquoise Howlite nuggets on this one. The three Turquoise strands come together at the Silver cones. Non Indian made. This necklace is 28-1/2" long.

There are many legends about Turquoise; the Pima consider it to bring good fortune and strength and 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.