Night Sky Curved Dangle Earrings by Calvin Begay

These dangle post earrings by Navajo artisan Calvin Begay depict a curved inlay design featuring a dark night sky with sterling silver stars above and adobe pueblo buildings below. Part of our "Night Sky" collection, they offer a peaceful glimpse so few of us have.

Materials: sterling silver, Jet, jasper, cultured opal Jet (black elements) is a product of high-pressure decomposition of wood from millions of years ago, commonly the wood of trees. Native American Navajo and Pueblo tribes of New Mexico were using regionally mined jet for jewelry and the ornamentation of weapons when early Spanish explorers reached the area in the 1500’s.Today these jet deposits are known as Acoma jet, for the Acoma Pueblo. Picture Jasper is an opaque, microcrystalline variety of Quartz with extraordinary color banding, veining and depositional flow patterns created by petrified or silicate mud and sometimes dendritic inclusions. Cultured opals, often referred to as opalite, are created in laboratories. Pure opals that occur in nature take many years to develop. Mines of natural opals are found across the globe. In the Southwest United States, there are naturally occurring opal fields that are mined.

Measures 1" long; 1/4" at widest