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SANTO DOMINGO RARE NATURAL MANASSA TURQUOISE HEISHI NECKLACE RAY LOVATO

$ 1478.4

Availability: 100 in stock
  • Origin: NEW MEXICO
  • Modified Item: No
  • All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
  • Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
  • Country of Manufacture: United States
  • Provenance: Ownership History Available
  • Tribal Affiliation: SANTO DOMINGO
  • Culture: Native American: US
  • Condition: New
  • Artisan: RAY LOVATO
  • Handmade: Yes

    Description

    Ray Lovato is the Santo Domingo artist of this one strand rare
    Natural Manassa Turquoise heishi necklace. The necklace one
    strand you will be purchasing is the slightly shorter of the necklaces
    shown slightly greener with the most brown matrix of turquoise heishi shown.
    Additional photos are provided to show of several heishi turquoise necklaces
    all made by the same artist Ray Lovato for visual purposes
    slightly different colors of turquoise.   This rare greenish natural Manassa Turquoise
    measures 34'' L as shown on a squaw wrap and the beads measures 1/4"W.
    A squaw wrap is the traditional way of making a clasp for necklaces.
    This is how this necklace is being sold "as is" with traditional squaw wrap.
    Turquoise from many select mines are often not readily available to
    Native American artists today in todays market and the market is an
    every changing place as fewer artists are making jewelry and several
    mines are either closed or the stone is all mined out or the quality of
    the stone also may not be there in jewelry making.  Those are but a few
    of the many reasons why the price of turquoise continues to go up in
    value along with having more of the demand and less of supply of not
    only Turquoise but qualified quality known artists making the jewelry.
    What you are seeing here is all natural turquoise, which has not treated
    or stablized something that everyone wants and that no one can find...
    so now by popular demand...here it is.  Really gorgeous...
    This looks great worn either by itself a single long strand...
    or this can be layered with several strands of handmade individual
    Heishi bead strands handmade by Ray Lovato's Heishi necklaces
    we have two natural Manassa Turquoise "as shown" 34"L ...then
    we have one strand of Heishi turquoise with brighter blue rare all
    Natural Kingman turquoise (shown) on our listing (Ray's wearing)
    which will be same 1/4" width bead with each strand one measuring 36"L
    each 00. each, that are listing that look gorgeous all 3 Heishi
    bead strands all worn altogether
    .
    THESE NECKLACES ARE ALL NEW...NEVER WORN...
    PURCHASED DIRECTLY FROM RAY LOVATO...
    PLEASE SPECIFY WHICH NECKLACE YOU ARE BUYING THE BLUER (KINGMAN) NECKLACE (SOLD)
    OR THE GREENER (MANASSA) NECKLACE (2 AVAILABLE AS OF 9/11/2019)
    ALL THREE ARE SOLD SEPARATELY, EACH STRAND SELLS FOR 00.
    Ray Lovato Artist Pictured.
    June 2014.
    Thanks for looking!