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Item # 510P - Rare Vintage 20's-30's Navajo 3 Stone Petrified Wood w/Whirling Logs Bracelet
WOW! Beautiful rare vintage 20's-30's Navajo three stone petrified wood with whirling logs bracelet! The bracelet displays three (3) beautiful cut and polished petrified wood (possibly picture agate?) stones each set in a smooth bezel. The center stone is cut into an oval shape with each side stone cut into an arrowhead shape. The artist adds a large silver drop on each outer side of the arrowhead stones and mounts everything to a slit cut silver cuff. They are some really nice stones, but the real kicker is the stampwork! Both sides of the cuff are stamped with not only a whirling log (reversed swastika) with an arrow shooting through it, but also a Thunderbird with a whirling log stamped into the birds chest. The silversmith also adds more decorative stamping around the stones and the very end of each side. The bracelet measures 1 1/8" wide with an inner circumference of 5 1/2" and a 1" opening. It will fit a 6 3/8" to 6 1/2" wrist as is and could be slightly and carefully adjusted. It weighs 25.6 grams and is unsigned coin or sterling silver. The whirling log symbol dates back to prehistoric American Indian culture and has been found in everything from early petroglyph's to more modern early 1900's blankets and crafts. The symbolic meaning in native culture is uniting or united, good luck, and wind of the four directions varying on tribe, culture, and religious preference. If you notice, the arms of the symbol point in opposite directions than that of the Nazi Swastika, but most people never associated the difference. The native culture basically stopped using the symbol in the early 1930's due to the negativity that was brought by the Nazi party to the symbol. Legend has it the symbol tells a story about an outcast of a tribe. He carved out a log for a canoe to leave the tribe and during his trip hit a whirlpool, thus the name "whirling log". Beautiful vintage Navajo bracelet will little to no signs of previous wear! Real collector's find! $589.95
