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FREE: Navajo Sunset Orange and Jojoba Beaded Necklace 70s

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Description

The listing, Navajo Sunset Orange and Jojoba Beaded Necklace 70s has ended.

This necklace was one of a large batch purchased in 1975 from Nellie Begay, a Navajo artisan living in Window Rock, Arizona. I ordered them from her when I was traveling to Germany and knew a jeweler there. We intended to sell them in his store, but through unforeseen circumstances the jeweler could not complete the purchase and I was left with several hundred necklaces that wound up in my mother's storage shed for many years. When she died in 2011 at 91, I started slowly sorting through things again.

This is one of the last dozen or so that I have left. It boasts sunset-orange colored seed beads with genuine jojoba accents. A few clear/yellow colored spacer beads accent the piece, which is approximately 26" in circumference if you don't include the sunburst pendant. The sunburst itself is nearly 4" in diameter.

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Questions & Comments

WOW! this is awesome! thank you for the "her-story" too! W

Dec 23rd, 2013 at 2:35:30 PM PST by

Naw! LOVE the "her-story!" otherwise known as history of this Navajo necklace! It is SO special to be hand made by Nellie Begay! I suggest you hit that edit button Kathleen78 and put "made by Navajo artist Nellie Begay" in the heading so that people will catch the auction--I just happened to catch it--lots of Native American art/jewelry collectors her on listia!

Dec 23rd, 2013 at 5:54:22 PM PST by

there! I am chatty and durn proud of it! :-)

Dec 23rd, 2013 at 5:55:30 PM PST by

YAY! Same colors or different? W all your auctions! :-)

Dec 28th, 2013 at 10:56:26 PM PST by

I have one with gold beads up now; just put it up today, along with the full story behind all of the necklaces. Thanks, buster. :)

Dec 28th, 2013 at 10:58:10 PM PST by

Oh well--too close to the end of the auction probably--by the waaaay! I was "a bit chatty!" on one of your other auctions--can I just call you Kathleen? OK--like I was saying--I was AWESOME chatty! I didn't know there was a LIMIT on how much you could comment! wordage-wise that is! hmmm....seems like I had to cut it short a bit and I was just getting started! lol the '70's rocked! you rock! I rock! Hippies rocked! Native Americans rock! Let's have FUN on listia! :-)

Dec 28th, 2013 at 11:13:10 PM PST by

You can call me Katy if you like; most people do. I think it's 1000 characters that you can have in a single post. Lol, yep, when you think about it, us young people back in the 60s-70s really did make a difference. We ended the war a lot sooner than it would have been. I wish the young people today had the belief in themselves that we had in ourselves. We really believed we could end the war, and we did. If the kids had our optimism, I think they could change the word again. (Course, some of us grew up to be the people in Congress now, lol...maybe that's why the young don't realize just how much good we did back then.)

Dec 28th, 2013 at 11:48:22 PM PST by

just looked at the map of your location Katy--looks like the sidewalk! lol looks like a big parking garage?

Dec 29th, 2013 at 3:57:24 PM PST by

LOL, yeah, they just took the map of downtown Glendale. We're on the outskirts. I think they showed the map of 85301, which is central Glendale. I'd say we're about 10 miles from there now. We moved into the city 4 years ago; we were more rural before. But I like the city; I still have a garden. Right now there's lettuce, carrots, beets, swiss chard, radishes, green onions and rosemary still growing like crazy. Those things will grow through the winter, and then in late February I'll be able to put out the tomatoes. Can't wait.

Dec 29th, 2013 at 4:52:57 PM PST by

very cute necklace ,,xoxox please let me know when and if you are going to put more cute necklaces to bid on ok ,,xoxoxx HAVE A HAPPY NEW YEAR ,,XOXOX :)

Dec 29th, 2013 at 5:17:30 PM PST by

Very welcome! I rambled more about Nellie on the other auction...too much, probably, LOL.

Dec 23rd, 2013 at 3:35:23 PM PST by

Good idea, buster, I'll see if I can change it.

Dec 23rd, 2013 at 9:39:56 PM PST by

Darn, I don't think I can change the titles now. But I'll remember that for next time; I have a few more of hers to put up after Christmas.

Dec 23rd, 2013 at 9:41:45 PM PST by

Navajo Sunset Orange and Jojoba Beaded Necklace 70s is in the Jewelry & Watches | Necklaces category