Item # 745E- Vintage Navajo Inlaid Waterbird/Turquoise Fan Decorated Spinner Pendant
Item # 745E- Vintage Navajo Inlaid Waterbird/Turquoise Fan Decorated Spinner Pendant
Solid vintage 70's Navajo Waterbird-Turquoise Fan decorated spinner pendant! The artist creates a teardrop pendant and oxidizes both sides black. On one side he/she decorates with a cut and polished blue-green turquoise nugget set in a saw tooth bezel. They decorate around the stone with a silver feather fan, twisted wire, coiled wire, scrolls, and curved silver. Finishing this side with both twisted wire and smooth wire around the outer rim of the teardrop. On the opposite side they attach a domed teardrop over the top with a waterbird cut out and decorative stamping around the outer rim. The artist also inlays turquoise and coral chips into the waterbirds body. They finish the spinner pendant by creating a spinning bale.