

Hi Eileen, Yeah I usually run about 2 months behind on answering questions, then Christmas came and I got even behinder ! Well it is hard to say for sure from a photo, but as soon as you said plastic, I thought acoma jet because it is very lightweight and sometimes is mistaken for plastic by people who haven’t seen or handled any jet items before.

The chain is silver along with the Sheild with feathers. I can email photos, but the make up of the necklance is silver beads and black beads that seem to not be stone or glass. Hadn’t heard back and thought I would try again. Hi Paula, a few months about I emailed pics of a necklace I owned and wanted to know if you could tell me something about it. As you view these photos, remember that coffee is one of the essential fuels on a horse ranch. So here are some of the ranch rings I wear. Sterling rings are safe to leave on when I wash my hands, something I do quite a bit up at the barn. Plus, by not wearing my stone or inlay rings around the barn, I run a much smaller risk of cracking the stones. When wearing a simple silver band, there is very little that could get caught and rip my finger off. When I am going to be outdoors or working in the barn near metal panels, banging gates, handling ropes, reins and such, I opt for simple rings such as a well-fitting silver band. One factor that affects which ring I will wear is that I live on a ranch.

Sometimes with vintage rings it is hard to tell who made the ring because it was not common to sign or stamp a hallmark on Native American jewelry until relatively recently. The two blood red stone rings were made from pipestone/catlinite quarried from Pipestone National Monument by a 5th generation Lakota pipe maker.
