Navajo contemporary white buffalo stone pendant

Handcrafted by Navajo artist Albert Jake. This pendant features a rectangular stone pattern of graduated sizes of large to small starting at the top to bottom. The simple design has its focus on the White Buffalo stones. It is unusual to see a Navajo pendant with the rectangular stones ! It has a medium weight and is easy to wear on a large set of silver beads or even a multi strand necklace. 

Material: White Buffalo stone & sterling silver

Measuremnts: 2" in length with a maximum width of 1". The bail is large enough to accommodate up to a 25mm bead or necklace.

Stone: 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.