Turquoise Jewelry Opal Silver Chandelier Earrings.

These Turquoise Jewelry Opal Silver Chandelier Earrings are elegant and fashionable. These earrings were artfully hand crafted out of shimmering Sterling Silver. The Sterling Silver channels have been inlaid with hand cut stones of natural Sleeping Beauty Turquoise (the Tiffany of Turquoise) and lab Opal. Turquoise jewelry is high in fashion now for its natural color and elegance. These gorgeous pieces of Turquoise jewelry graciously dangle from their Turquoise posts. Non Indian made. These sensational Turquoise post earrings are 1-1/2" 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.