Native American handmade sterling silver 925 storyteller tufa cast coyote moon e

Native American handmade sterling silver 925 storyteller tufa cast coyote moon earrings Exquisite handmade stunners with so many details! Solid 925 sterling silver Native American sand casted earrings. Features coyote howling at the moo flanked by two Southwestern rocks. Stamped "STERLING" on the back of one. Tested as sterling silver. Wonderful natural patina. Comes with generic backings shown. Native American artisans first source tufa rock by cutting it from their special, sometimes secret local cache.  They then cut the block of tufa in two pieces, which fit tightly together forming a mold. Into one or both sides of the soft tufa stone mold, the native jewelers skillfully carve patterns, sometimes quite complex.  They also carve air holes and an area at the top of the mold, where molten metal (most often silver) will be carefully poured in once melted to the proper point.  When the metal has cooled and hardened into the shape of the mold, the two sides of the carved tufa block can be opened. Oftentimes, only one piece of jewelry comes from any single tufa mold.  Even when a mold can be used more than once, the next pieces of jewelry to come from the mold will inevitably have variations. Tags: Native American, Southwestern, Western, jewelry, ranch girl, vintage, tribal, Aztec, hippie, boho, bohemian, gypsy, moon child, desert, country girl, cowgirl, cowboy farm girl, horse lover, turquoise rodeo queen, Free People, hippie, flower child, sunflower lover, Spell