Oval ring w/carved rain design sides, adobe pueblo inlay

The unique setting of this ring gets its inspiration from the Hopi overlay designs of rain. The stair step design are storm clouds and the circle is rain. All of this is along with the oval Adobe Pueblo design inlay make this ring special. The overall inlay only measures 3/4" x 1/2" and has a nice heavy feel when worn.

NAVAJO HANDCRAFTED OVAL RING ADOBE PUEBLO JEWELRY: The Pueblo design you see in your piece reflects the of the Navajo people’s lifestyle. The scenery is set in New Mexico, near "Shiprock" mountain. This mountain range is a sacred area for the Navajo. The black represents Father sky (everything known) while the pueblos are mother earth (everything known) Sterling silver (stars and setting): Is an alloy of silver containing 92.5% by weight of silver and 7.5% by weight of other metals, usually copper. The sterling silver standard has a minimum fineness of 925. Cultured opals (white colored elements), 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. Jet (black elements) is a product of high-pressure decomposition of wood from millions of years ago, commonly the wood of trees. Jet is found in two forms, hard and soft. Hard jet is the result of carbon compression and salt water; soft jet is the result of carbon compression and fresh water. 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 (brown elements) 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.