Turquoise Squash Blossom Sterling Silver Concho Bench Bead Necklace 0865-SQNK
Turquoise Squash Blossom Sterling Silver Concho Bench Bead Necklace
This Turquoise Squash Blossom Sterling Silver Concho Bench Bead Necklace features nine Sterling Silver concho stamped with traditional Navajo designs in the Squash Blossom style. Each concho highlights a Turquoise nugget. The center concho is adorned with a pair of 1-3/4" genuine Bear claws capped with Sterling Silver tips. The conchos are strung on a double strand of bench beads. Each concho is 2" by 1-1/2" and the total length of the necklace is 30-1/2". Each end is finished with a Sterling Silver cones with hook-eye and comb clasps. This Squash Blossom concho necklace is from a design in the March 1975 Arizona Highways magazine. This Squash Blossom will make an impressive statement. You will be receiving the one-of-a-kind item in the pictures.
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. |