Sterling Spiral Pendant Earrings Inlaid with Bisbee Rouge Turquoise

Navajo

About The Sterling Spiral Pendant Earrings Inlaid with Bisbee Rouge Turquoise

Sterling silver tufa cast, mill rolled sheet and drawn wire were used to create earring pendants and dome "button" wires.  Natural deep blue turquoise with red/ brown matrix from the Bisbee mine, was hand cut for the eight 1/8" diameter round inlays.

Tufa stone was carved for each of the symmetrical spiral pendants.  Molten silver was poured into the mold this carving created.  Round depressions were part of the carving and were refined with files before round turquoise stones were inlaid.

Silver sheet was cut into discs and each one was domed, using a repousse technique that required hammering the disc into a shallow rounded depression in a cottonwood stump.  Sterling wire was soldered to the center inside of each dome and shaped.

About Navajo

"Dineh or Diné are a Native American people of the Southwestern United States.  They are the second largest federally recognized tribe in the United States with over 300,000 enrolled tribal members as of 2015.  The Navajo reservation occupies over 27,000 square miles of land in Arizona, New Mexico and Utah.  Navajo language is spoken throughout the reservation with most Navajos speaking English as well." excerpted from Wikipedia

 

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American Indian, Navajo

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Jewelry

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Keywords

Sterling Spiral Pendant Earrings Inlaid with Bisbee Rouge Turquoise, Jewelry, Navajo