Precious Turquoise Plugs 2 Gauge

Precious Turquoise Plugs 2 Gauge. Solid turquoise semi precious stone saddle plugs. Originally, indigenous peoples of the Southwest carved turquoise into beads or animal fetishes or overlaid it onto wood, bone, or shell using such fixatives as beeswax or piñon pine pitch. The Spanish introduced silver mining, smelting, and smithing technology into the Southwest in the sixteenth century. Combining that new knowledge of silver with the turquoise stone, the Native Americans created an industry of beauty.