Dentalium – Blue Horse Stars with Coins Earrings
$23.00
Dentalium – Blue Horse Stars with Coins Earrings feature flowing dentalium shells accented with turquoise horse beads, star details, and silver buffalo coins. These striking earrings honor strength, guidance, prosperity, and spiritual connection through layered symbolism and refined craftsmanship.
Description
Dentalium – Blue Horse Stars with Coins Earrings are a bold expression of heritage, artistry, and movement. Slender dentalium shells create the elegant 5-inch drop, accented with blue and turquoise tones, star beads, glass beads, silver beads, turquoise horse beads, and detailed buffalo coins. Carefully handwoven using durable Nymo thread and finished with surgical steel components, the 0.75 × 5-inch silhouette offers graceful motion and strong visual presence.
In Native American traditions, Dentalium — or tusk shells — are small tubular mollusk shells historically harvested from the Pacific Northwest, particularly around Vancouver Island. Highly valued and widely traded among Indigenous peoples across America, they symbolized wealth, status, and beauty, and were often used to adorn dresses, necklaces, earrings, and ceremonial regalia.
Many centuries ago, Indigenous tribes embraced horses not as possessions but as relatives — teachers, healers, and partners in culture, survival, and resistance. Horses are woven deeply into Indigenous art, ceremony, history, and storytelling, representing wisdom, endurance, leadership, and spiritual partnership. Native communities continue to honor the profound strength and guidance horses bring to their world.
The addition of star motifs reflects guidance and connection to the cosmos, while coin elements evoke themes of prosperity, trade, and cultural exchange — echoing the historic value of dentalium itself.
Together, dentalium, horse imagery, stars, and coins create a powerful design honoring resilience, guidance, prosperity, and enduring spiritual continuity.
Details
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Colors: White, blue, silver, turquoise
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Materials: Dentalium shells, star beads, glass beads, turquoise horse beads, silver beads, buffalo coins, surgical steel, Nymo thread
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Size: 0.75 × 5 inches
Care Instructions: Wipe with damp cloth and keep dry. Dentalium is a delicate shell and it can break or crack if you are rough with it. Even though the Nymo thread has a nylon base and is very strong, pulling hard and yanking on the earrings can tear the thread. Please be kind to these earrings when you wear them.
