Vintage Handmade Navajo Silver Squash Blossom Earrings

Just about every collector of Native American jewelry needs a pair of silver squash blossom earrings. They're fantastic transitional pieces of jewelry. Even though the blossom is a traditional design, it can look great combined with your contemporary pieces.

The blossom motif first appeared on early Navajo necklaces and were likely adopted from the pomegranate design used on Spanish decorative ornaments like the buttons on soldiers' uniforms. Adapting the pomegranate design to one that represents a squash blossom would have come naturally, for squash is one of the most significant Indigenous foods as one of the Three Sisters. The other two sisters are beans and corn.

This particular pair of silver squash blossom earrings is lovely. They're vintage Navajo, and they're handmade. They're posts for pierced ears, and they're very comfortable on. They dangle 1 1/2" with a 5/8" width. 

They come from a Seattle collection of Native American jewelry, and they were at one point sold by Martha Hopkins Struever. 

You'll find yourself grabbing these again and again.

• Vintage Navajo silver squash blossom earrings
• Handmade
• Dangles
• 1 1/2" x 5/8"
• Seattle Collection
• Ex-Martha Struever Gallery Collectio