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Navajo Carico Lake Turquoise & Jacla Necklace

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles Start Price:25.00 USD Estimated At:1,500.00 - 3,000.00 USD
Navajo Carico Lake Turquoise & Jacla Necklace
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For your consideration is a Navajo Native American Carico Lake turquoise and jacla pendant necklace from the late 19th century. A traditional Pueblo jewelry adornment, a jacla is two loops of heishi that were originally earrings and sometimes fastened to the bottom of a stone necklace as a pendant-like attachment. Jacla is Navajo for “ear string”. Although jaclas are attributed to the Rio Grande Pueblo Indians, they were traded with other tribes and have so become associated with the Navajo as well. Most jaclas have tabular pieces in the bottom center that are called “corn”. The rarest and most sought after “corns” are made from white or orange (spiny oyster) shell or coral. This stunning double stranded necklace is made of heishe shell and Carico Lake turquoise gemstones. This necklace features a tied chord construction indicative of an early 19th century age. What makes this necklace a wonderful piece is the addition of two jacla earrings with one of the earring sets containing the rare spiny oyster corns. Both jacla’s are complimentary in their use of Carico Lake turquoise. They also feature branch coral beads towards their tying points. This is an exceptional early Navajo Native American piece. It measures 17” long to the tips of the jacla pendants.