This beautiful piece created by Navajo artist Lee Charley features an amazing tufa cast dragonfly with a gorgeous high grade Royston turquoise stone and five stunning deep red gem grade Mediterranean coral cabochons all set to outline the body of the creature. The Royston turquoise in this piece is a stunning deep blue-green with a hint of dark reddish-brown matrix. Tufa casting is an ancient process where the artist carves a particular design into a tufa or sandstone pours molten silver into it therefore yielding a one of a kind item. This process can only be used two to three times before the design is destroyed by the molten material. This is a much more labor intensive process than conventional investment casting which produces an infinite number of identical images. This item can be worn as either a pin or a pendant.

Pin/Pendant Size: 2 in. x 2 3/4 in.