Two Strand Native American Turquoise Heishi Bead Silver Necklace. This necklace is a gorgeous piece of hand strung Navajo Indian jewelry. This necklace features two strands of heishi beads of genuine Turquoise. Smaller heishi beads of genuine Penn Shell provide the spacing and extensions with their natural earth tone hues. These Turquoise and Penn Shell Heishi bead strands come together at the plated Silver cones. This sensational necklace is 31" long with an extra 2-3/4" long extension chain.

There are many legends about Turquoise; The Pima consider it to bring good fortune and strength and that it helped overcome illness. The Zuni believe that blue turquoise was male and of the sky and green turquoise was female and of the earth. Pueblo Indians thought that its color was stolen from the sky. In Hopi legend the lizard who travels between the above and the below, excretes turquoise and that the stone can hold back floods. The Apache felt that turquoise on a gun or bow made it shoot straight. The Navajo consider it as good fortune to wear and believe it could appease the Wind Spirit.