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Regular price $44.00 Save $-44.00Kewa Pueblo jeweler, Lupita Calabaza, inlaid natural sky blue turquoise, jet, and black lip mother of pearl on beautiful white shells. A narrow bar of sterling silver lies underneath the turquoise. A perfect blend of sky and ocean. They dangle from sterling silver wires.
Size: 2" H x .75" W - includes wires
The people of Kewa Pueblo in New Mexico have been making these types of earrings for hundreds of years. They would chip out the stone and shape it by rubbing it on sandstone for many hours and use tree pitch as an adhesive. The shells were traded for by people living along the Sea of Cortez.
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