This Hand Carved Genuine Turquoise Sculpture is an amazing work of art.This carving is impressive, a blend of natural materials and powerfulNative American imagery. It features a Native American warrior, aneagle, two bears, and a horse in a monumental montage. This sculptureis just full of incredible hand carved details on all sides. It took alot of skill, imagination, and ingenuity to cut Turquoise like thiswith such precision. Carving Turquoise is very difficult and a smallslip can fracture the Turquoise and ruin the design. This sculpture isfour pounds and it started out as a five pound nugget of genuineTurquoise. This Turquoise looks to be some old Cananea Turquoise, butwe can't be one hundred percent sure about that. This TurquoiseSculpture is a true work of art. This incredible four pound Turquoisesculpture is 4-1/4" wide and 8-1/2" tall.

Turquoise is a highly sought-after mineral and ispossibly the most valuable, non-transparent mineral in the jewelrytrade. It has been mined for eons since at least 6000 BC by earlyEgyptians. Today, it is more popular than ever and its use around theworld is prolific. The finest turquoise comes from Iran but ischallenged by stone found in the southwestern United States. The namecomes from a French word, which means stone of Turkey, from wherePersian material passed on its way to Europe. Certain Native Americanscalled turquoise "Chal-cui-hui-tal", meaning "the highest and mostvalued thing in the world". The Navajo believe turquoise is a piece ofthe sky that has fallen to earth, and it is used as an offering toappease the wind. The Apache believe it combines the spirits of the seaand sky to help warriors and hunters aim accurately. The Zuni believethat blue turquoise was male and of the sky and green turquoise wasfemale and of the earth. The Zuni, along with many other NativeAmerican groups, believed the stone could help protect them from demonsor help a person feel intuitively the difference between good and evilas well as protect against accidents and various dangers. To actuallysee a bright blue nugget of Turquoise on the otherwise gray and dustydesert floor is to know the incredible nature of this stone and willlead anyone to realize what the Native Americans have known to be truefor millennia - that Turquoise is special, sacred, and has power.

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