Zuni Indian Inlaid Jewelry Sleeping Beauty Turquoise Sterling Silver Broach / Pin Pendant 0011-247651-JA

This Zuni Indian Inlaid Jewelry Sleeping Beauty Turquoise Sterling Silver Broach / Pin Pendant is a gorgeous work of Zuni Indian jewelry art. Two in One! It works as both a pendant and a broach/pin. This fine piece of Zuni Indian jewelry was hand made out of shimmering Sterling Silver. This hand made Sterling Silver pendant holds inlaid hand cut stones of natural Sleeping Beauty Turquoise (the Tiffany of Turquoise). Turquoise and Sterling Silver, you can't go wrong with that. Suspended from a complimentary chain, this Zuni Indian broach / pendant is 2-1/4" long. Signed in script by the Zuni Indian jewelry artist Liola Nastasio. You will be receiving the item in the pictures below.

Turquoise has been, since about 200 B.C., extensively used by southwestern U.S Native Americans and by many of the Indian tribes in Mexico. The Native American Jewelry or "Indian style" jewelry with turquoise mounted in or with silver is relatively new. Some believe this style of Jewelry was unknown prior to about 1880, when a white trader persuaded a Navajo craftsman to make turquoise and silver jewelry using coin silver. Prior to this time, the Native Americans had made solid turquoise beads, carvings, and inlaid mosaics. Recently, turquoise has found wide acceptance among people of all walks of life and from many different ethnic groups.

We understand the true value and nature of hand crafted Indian art. And, we recognize it's important to know that the artist is truly a member of a Native American tribe.