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Regular price $59.00 Save $-59.00Kewa Pueblo jeweler, Lupita Calabaza, used elements from the earth, sea, and sky to create these earrings. At the top is black jet from the Earth, shimmering Mother of Pearl from the sea, turquoise the color of the sky, all inlaid onto shells the color of burnt orange. There is a sterling silver turquoise strip below the inlaid stones. They dangle from sterling silver wires.
Size: 2.25" H (includes wires) x 1" W
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.