Rare Small Sterling Silver Native Southwest Turquoise & Coral Chip Inlay Pendant - Stamped and Tested Sterling Silver - Elongated Scroll - Wheeler Manufacturing

This listing is for the photographed Rare Small Sterling Silver Native Southwest Turquoise & Coral Chip Inlay Pendant. Very small sterling silver piece of jewelry featuring a mixture turquoise and coral inlay stones put together geometrically, in a jagged dome encasing the stone. The Navajo believed turquoise was a sacred stone used for protection from evil, good fortune, and health. The turquoise blue is very special in Navajo culture resembling the sky and water. Coral inlay has been used by Native Americans for at least 600 years in art and jewelry which was brought to them from Europeans arriving in their travel to the New World. The use of coral inlay was used heavily by the Zuni tribe in the southwest.

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Rare Small Sterling Silver Native Southwest Turquoise & Coral Chip Inlay Pendant - Stamped and Tested Sterling Silver - Elongated Scroll - Wheeler Manufacturing