Alluring Vintage Navajo Sterling Silver Squash Blossom Earrings

  

Up for sale is this remarkable pair of Navajo silver earrings having handcarved silver squash blossom pendants with handstamped silver beads and handmade silver posts for pierced ears! Handmade round sun stamped silver beads. It is very rare to find earrings with every single silver bead consisting of amazing stampings, usually the stampings are only on the bottom half or select beads all hand made sterling silver beaded, squash blossom Earrings measure about 1? The earrings weigh around 10.2 grams. Great addition to your collection Native American Squash Blossom jewelry.

Squash blossom necklace were originally created by Native American tribes such as the Navajo and Zuni, from materials such as silver and turquoise. The distinctive "squash blossom" bead design is said to have been inspired by either the pomegranate, a symbol of fertility and abundance, or the flowery part of a squash plant, a crop relied on by Natives Americans of the Southwest. The Navajo were the first indigenous people of the Southwest to work in silver.