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Navajo Squash Blossom Necklace with U S Coins - C3871
Category: Jewelry | Posted by | Tue, Jan 24th 2017, 10:40am
It was ingenious of some unknown Native artist to create a squash blossom necklace using repurposed materials-United States dimes and half dollars. I do not know who was the first to do so or exactly when the first one was made, but it was probably in the late 1970s. Supposedly it is illegal to deface United States coins but that did not stop the creation of this and other similar necklaces.
Each bead in the Navajo Squash Blossom Necklace with U S Coins was made by forming two United States dime coins into hemispheres and then soldering them together, drilling them in their center, and stringing them for a necklace.