Turquoise Jewelry Coral Sterling Silver Pendant 2686-PN
Turquoise Jewelry Coral Sterling Silver Pendant.
This Turquoise Jewelry Coral Silver Pendant is a sensational piece of hand made southwestern jewelry. This pendant was finely hand cut out of shimmering Sterling Silver. It holds a traditional cluster design made from hand cut cabochons of genuine Turquoise, Angelskin Coral, Lapis, Gaspeite, Gold Lip, Onyx, and Howlite. This Turquoise offers its natural cool blue shades to this shining Sterling Silver. A hand twisted wire of Sterling Silver gives this pendant an extra glimmer. Non Indian made. Suspended from a complimentary chain, this Pendant is 1-3/4" long. Stamped Sterling.
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. |