This is a striking vintage Navajo silver bracelet. What a colorful hammered link bracelet! Each of the five circular shaped stations host a region of the most impressive five petit point sleeping beauty turquoise with silver raindrops motifs It measures about 7″3/4 around and has a thick hook clasp 1″ΒΌ wide weight 25.0grams no marks but tested as sterling silver great addition to your collection From it’s humble begginings Sleeping Beauty Turquoise from Arizona has become one of the most important Turquoise mines in the world. Sleeping Beauty Turquoise was first found by the Native Americans during the Anasazi times. At this time the Turquoise was mined with hand tools and little bits were collected at a time. The baby blue or “Robin’s Egg” blue Turquoise was mainly used as beads and on shells that the Native American tribes of the Southwest had traded for with the Native American tribes of central and south America. Sleeping Beauty Turquoise also made its way to Pueblo Bonito during the Anasazi times along with Turquoise from other deposits in the Southwest. Pueblo Bonito served as a trade center for Anasazi Turquoise for North American Tribes, Central American Tribes and South American tribes. Since this time, the Sleeping Beauty mine was developed by Anglo peoples in search of Copper and other meetal ore.