Turquoise Silver Button Cover 0781-BTC
Turquoise Silver Button Cover.
Dress that shirt up cowboy style! This button cover is the perfect accessory for anyone trying to achieve that old western Native American or cowboy look. The top of this one is covered with sky blue spider web Turquoise (block). This button cover has a convenient back clip making it quick and easy to put on and take off. It is 5/8" in diameter making it large enough to fit over most buttons. You can order as many as you like while supplies last.
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. |