Turquoise Sterling Silver Butterfly Pendant Broach.

This Turquoise Silver Pendant is a sensational piece of jewelry that's highly elegant and fashionable. Two in One, it's both and broach and a pendant. This sensational pendant has been finely hand made out of shimmering Sterling Silver. The Sterling Silver has been adorned with hand cut stones of genuine Turquoise. Turquoise jewelry is high in fashion for its natural color. Turquoise and Sterling Silver, a traditional combination that you can't go wrong with. Suspended from a complimentary chain, this fine piece of Turquoise jewelry is 1-7/8" wide and 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.