Sterling Silver Turquoise Coral Kachina Pendant PO21

This Turquoise pendant is a stylized Sacred Butterfly-Maiden Kachina and is the perfect addition to your turquoise jewelry collection. She is solid sterling silver and delicately inlaid with genuine Turquoise, Red Coral, White Coral, Charoite, Melon Shell, Tiger's Eye, Lapis, Cultured Opal and Onyx. This Turquoise pendant measures 1 and 9/16" long and includes an 18” sterling plated chain.

The Butterfly Maiden is a kachina in Hopi mythology. In the spring she dances from flower to flower, pollinating and bringing life-giving rain to the Arizona desert. She is said to bring together unmarried men and women.

Turquoise jewelry tells the story of the American southwest. Turquoise Jewelry artists use a variety of different stones to show the numerous colors in the Southwestern sky. Turquoise is the blue sky, sugalite, charoite, red coral and spiny oyster are the setting Southwestern sun, Lapis is the twilight, onyx is the dark night, tiger's eye is the pale, yellow moon and cultured opal is the stars in the clear Southwestern night sky.