Native American Santo Domingo Made Spiny Oyster and Turquoise Necklace--Vintage

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1970s Native American Santo Domingo Made Spiny Oyster and Turquoise Necklace

This wonderful older necklace is made of spiny oyster and turquoise separated with melon shell. Each piece was hand-cut and hand ground into beads. This fabulous older piece is simply strung on sinew and finished with Sterling silver screw fitting. This is a very traditional necklace with a Sterling silver bead that separates the necklace from the jacla of turquoise and spiny oyster. A classic and historic piece of wearable art. Only a couple families did this type of work, we are sorry that we cannot pin down which family would have created this piece.