Turquoise Sterling Silver Southwestern Pendant 3799-PN-NEW
Turquoise Sterling Silver Southwestern Pendant.
This pendant is a real beauty. This one holds a gorgeous hand cut cabochon of genuine Turquoise right at the center. This impressive high quality Turquoise beautifully displays its natural sky blue color. Turquoise and Silver, you can't go wrong with that. Suspended from a complimentary chain, this pendant is 1/2" long.
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. |