PRODUCT DETAILS
The Navajo started working with silver in the mid 1800s, metalsmiths making things like buckles, buttons, jewelry and tobacco canteens from melted coins and flatware.
Jewelry and its adornment has always been an integral piece of Navajo traditions and craftsmanship and by the start of the 1900s, turquoise and other stones set in silver soldered into bead and leaf and feather designs became the statement of traditional Navajo jewelry.
Small sterling silver turtle with oxidized silver detail eyes and an oval larimar stone center.
The brooch / pin measures 30mm long and 20mm at its widest.
The larimar stone is 14mm long and 10mm wide.
3.7 grams total weight.
Some tarnish to the silver.
Marked Sterling and with an M for Arnold Maloney.