Turquoise Bear Paw Earrings

Turquoise bear paw earrings are Navajo handcrafted of sterling silver. Turquoise earrings are made by soldering a pre-cut bear paw design onto a silver back, adding the bezel and setting the turquoise stone. Cute little turquoise earrings would make a great start to your collection of Native American jewelry.

Our collection of Navajo earrings are made of sterling silver and genuine turquoise, coral, malachite, onyx, spiney oyster shell, amber, lapis and other semi-precious stones. Navajo jewelry has been in existence for approximately 150 years. Atsidi Sani (means “old smith” in Navajo) is considered the grandfather of all Navajo smiths. Handmade silver beads were among the first Native American jewelry Navajo silversmiths made. Although it is not clear what type of metal early Navajo smiths were using, today Native American Indian silver jewelry is made using primarily sterling silver or 14tk gold. Turquoise was not used in American silver jewelry until the 1880’s after Navajo silversmiths started stamping and soldering silver.