The left-most is melon shell. I’d like to know that kind of shell the 2nd left one is (with the turquoise). It is so silky. The other long one is olive shell. And the right-most is stabilized turquoise.
The stabilized turquoise one has always confused me a little because clearly the beads aren’t perfectly graduated. Was it made from spares? Was it at one point re-strung? Were they machine beads? I just don’t know.
Here are some turquoise pieces. From the collection my husband calls “Why do you have so many of the same necklace?” He just doesn’t see it . The innermost one is stabilized Sleeping Beauty. The outermost one is natural - I’m not sure what type of turquoise it is but it very much reminds me of Nacozari and has many pyrite spots. The rest are mystery turquoise to me.
So many pretty necklaces. Think of the time that was spent making these beauties. I like the dark red coral turquoise one and even though I don’t do fetish necklaces…yours would be an exception.
Thank you all for sharing your beautiful jewelry and impressive knowledge. Here are the heishi (and beads) I am holding and wearing all the time. My time in this website has helped me be bold and wear them more often. I am in Central coast California and almost no one wears this type of thing here.
The first necklace is the only one I know maker or mine. I bought this three strands Kingman necklace at the Heard Museum Indian Market this spring (2025) from the the artist Feliciano Tenorio. It was so hard to choose from all the beautiful things, but finally I just went with the one my heart was drawn to. The others are an assortment I bought second hand and know nothing about. The smallest I have had for the longest time and it has cheap connections of the wrong type to be NA at all, but the beads look hand shaped to me and it is so easy to wear every day. The other three are new to me. Two are in string and one is on wire and you can see the kinks in the photo. I like them all.
Next up on the left are some rectangular Chinese turquoise beads I found a flea market 20+ years ago and strung up myself with Carnelian. The next two I got from charity shops. They both have silver beads between the turquoise. I don’t know if that means that they’re not native American. The black and turquoise one I know nothing about, but I just really liked the look of it and it might be all plastic for all I know. It’s multi-strand and instead of any clasp it just appears to have all the strings tied together and melted. What does that mean? Does that mean it’s all just the cheapest thing ever? After that there’s the shell necklace with what I believe to be serpentine. Last but not least is an Ava Marie Coriz is necklace with huge shaped beads and silver work. I just noticed the RR above the AMC and I wonder if that means she worked with somebody else on it? Since I first saw it, I’ve been trying to figure out if it was block turquoise or real, or something else. Even the silver work is quite impressive to me.
I found the settings in my phone! I was outside in the shade, I had a white background, but now I found the color and balance settings! So much better and closer to the true colors. Thanks for bearing with me folks.
@WaterWays i understand why you like the black and turquoise one! It is unique (imho, but I don’t know much at all) due to its asymmetry and I LOVE that!
Thank you for the recommendation! I’m getting it restrung at Perry Null. Great people (& pricing).
I was able to get in touch with the lady whose estate sale I bought it from (still living, just cleaning out a few generations of collectibles) to see if there was any info she was open to sharing. She said that she had inherited it from her mother in the 1980s, and that her mother had either a) purchased it in the 1950s when she lived in Colorado or b) inherited it from her mother.
I’m glad I trusted my gut on getting it re-strung before wearing it out and about since it sounds like the string is no spring chicken
Oh good, I’m glad you’re getting it fixed! And even if it possibly had never broken, you would have always worried about it. I’ve had a number of things fixed, and I still have to remind myself that they’re not going to break, so I can wear them now
. The innermost one is stabilized Sleeping Beauty. The outermost one is natural - I’m not sure what type of turquoise it is but it very much reminds me of Nacozari and has many pyrite spots. The rest are mystery turquoise to me.
