Necklaces

The late, award winning Hopi jeweler, Chalmers Day created this marvelous overlay necklace in the early 1990s.  The pendant’s overlay design represents the feast with a maiden grinding the corn...

Pat Read was a trader that had Native American shops in Taos, New Mexico and Albuquerque’s old town in the 1950-60 era. On some time line he purchased this fine...

This beautiful three-strand necklace would have been worn ceremonially for Pueblo dances and feast days. It is made of natural orange coral “seed” beads. Necklace Length: 28-1/2 in. Bead Width:...

Containing 23 bears, this rare necklace was made in Zuni Pueblo in the 1960s. Each fetish is delicately carved out of gleaming white ivory. Necklace Length: 26 in Largest Bear:...

Made for ceremonial use at the feast day dances in Santo Domingo Pueblo, this necklace features hand-pump-drilled natural white olive shell, accompanied by natural turquoise nuggets from the Lone Mountain...

This outstanding heishi necklace was made at Santo Domingo Pueblo in the 1960-70 era. Olive sea shells were cut and drilled prior to grinding. Dark pin shell, oxblood coral and...

This fine necklace is an early example of overlay. Made in the early 1970s the necklace has nine pendants. The four on each side are weather and water symbols. The...

This old ceremonial necklace was made in Santo Domingo pueblo in the 1930s. It is made of hand drilled and hand ground oyster shell. The necklace features an inlayed pendant. The pendant is inlayed on a fragment of an LP record. The inlay is natural turquoise, oyster shell and coral. On each side of the necklace are four old Navajo handmade beads, each interspersed with three old squash blossoms. The sterling beads and blossoms came from an old Navajo squash style necklace.

This wonderful old Navajo squash blossom necklace was collected at the Charles Eagleplume gallery in Estes Park Colorado in the early 1960s. It features nineteen large handmade sterling silver beads interspersed with ten perfectly matched handmade sterling silver squash blossoms. The naja is made from hand pulled ingot sterling silver and set with five rare gem grade natural smoky Bisbee cabochons. The necklace was marked as old when purchased and probably dates from the 1950s.

This old ceremonial necklace made in the 1930-40s is hand drilled and hand ground out of natural turquoise and oyster shell. The necklace was made to be worn at the dances and features a large oyster shell pendant at its bottom.