Navajo or Hopi Squash Blossom Necklace Circa 1930's

Navajo

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Savvy Price $4,800.00: Gallery Price $5,600.00

Title: Navajo or Hopi Squash Blossom Necklace Circa 1930's
Artist: Navajo
Medium: Sterling silver and natural turquoise
Troy ounces: 9.13 troy ounces
Size: Overall length is 28" (inside strand), 30" (outside strand) with a 4 3/16" X 3 5/8" width naja adding 3 1/4" to the overall length. Blossoms are 1 15/16"" X 15?16" at widest.
Date of creation: Circa 1930's
Condition: Excellent to good. Setting is undisturbed, so it is deemed to be entirely original.
Turquoise: Natural blue green turquoise with varying matrix
Description: Sterling silver was used to create the necklace body. Each of the 12 blossoms and the naja were tufa cast carvings carefully finished with files and burnished with steel. Bezels are hand cut from mill rolled ingot sheet.130 beads were hand crafted from the same material using a male and female hand-carved steel die to form each half sphere. A double pierced bar behind each blossom and the squared "loop" suspension for the naja central pendant are all fashioned from 1/16" thick ingot sheet.
Provenance: PAV
Gram weight: 284 grams

About The Navajo or Hopi Squash Blossom Necklace Circa 1930's

Tremendous skill was necessary in the creation of this grand and visually graceful necklace.

Each fleur de lis is perfection. Blossoms are perfectly matched though each is individually made with great care.

Turquoise is all natural blue green turquoise with some golden to rust red matrix.

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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