Turquoise Sterling Silver Bear Paw Dangle French Hook Earrings 1764-ER
Turquoise Sterling Silver Bear Paw Dangle French Hook Earrings
These earrings have the traditional look of the southwest. This pair of Turquoise Sterling Silver Bear Paw Dangle French Hook Earrings was finely hand crafted out of shimmering Sterling Silver. Each earring features the hand cut Sterling Silver image of the traditional bear paw symbol in a shadow box design. The center of each bear paw holds a hand cut cab of block Turquoise. A pair of shining Sterling Silver feathers dangle from the bottom of each bear paw shadow box with block Turquoise heishi beads. These dangle earrings hang from their French hooks at a length of 2".
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. |