White Buffalo pendant & Silver beads set - BC 1379

Beautiful Navajo pearl & pendant set. The beads are sterling silver and measure 8mm with a length of 18". The pendant is also set in solid sterling silver with a White Buffalo stone. The black and white coloring of the stone is outstanding. The tear drop shape measures 2" in length and 1"-1/4 at its widest point. The Navajo artist for the pendant is Happy Piaso. NAVAJO PEARLS AND WHITE BUFFALO STONE SET BY ARTIST HAPPY PIASO WHITE BUFFALO The White Buffalo stone originates from the Tonopah Nevada area found in the same general veins as Dry Creek turquoise but has no copper content. Considering this fact, it should therefore NOT be called "white, turquoise" as it does not have the same chemical composition as turquoise, which is a copper phosphate. There is no copper to cause blue color or iron to cause green color. It is a mostly clean white calcite/quartz mix with black chert inclusions (matrix) that are more sharply defined as opposed to being smutty. The better stones have clear delineations of black and white. Happy Piaso, Navajo, is 40 years old (2014) and is married to Rudie Willie. She was born and raised in Alamo, New Mexico and has 2 children, one of which is in the military. Happy was taught the craft of silversmithing by her husband, Rudie.