We are auctioning off this gorgeous necklace to support this year's 2025 5th annual Odenong Powwow!

Bid online or in person at the powwow. Auction closes at 8pm Saturday, May 31.

Item Details:

Algonquin Woodland peoples know the ancient story of how the First People were saved by the gift of Grandmother Turtle's shell, which is how this land mass came to be called Turtle Island. Wings honors not just her gift but her very being and spirit with this necklace, featuring articulated head, legs, tail, and beautifully marbled shell all bound together and cascading from a strand of jeweled beads in the shades of earth and water, sky and silvery light. Her head is formed of a beautifully complex cabachon of chrysocalla, emerald, and seafoam greens arising from earthy black matrix and accented with flashes of indigo, bezel-set and trimmed with twisted silver. Her body is a truly remarkable cabachon made of a single slice of natural pinecone, wafer-thin and embedded in a layer of resin aswirl in shades of translucent emerald green and black. Sterling silver pattern wire in a molded floral pattern with echoes of Art Nouveau styling create her legs, arched outward from her body and ready to move, while her tail, like the slider-style bail from which she hangs, is a flared triangle of sterling silver, stamped freehand. She dances from a cascade of ultra-high-grade gemstone beads, two old natural chrysocolla cabochons bisected by a single orb of iron pyrite at the center, flowing into spheres of highly polished ocean jasper in two sizes, flanked by long jet barrels and alternating with sterling silver and iron pyrite accents. Moving upward, the beads form a gradient of greens and blues, electric green chrome diopside and softer jade flowing into blue spiderweb turquoise in two sizes, all set off by iron pyrite flanked by sterling silver, with tine diamond-cut sterling silver anchors at either end. Beads are strung on ultra-strong tri-ply foxtail coated in silver for color and held with sterling silver findings.

Pendant: Sterling silver, chrysocolla, pinecone in reside

Beads: old ultra-high-grade chrysocolla, iron pyrite, jet, Pietersite, ocean jasper, sterling silver, chrome diopside, jade, blue spiderweb turquoise, diamond-cut sterling silver

By Wings: NDN Silver, People of the Red Willow (Taos Tueblo)

2025 Odenong Auction