Dentalium – Green Top Rainbow Earrings
$43.00
Dentalium – Green Top Rainbow Earrings feature flowing dentalium shells accented with vibrant rainbow tones and a striking green crown detail. These elegant statement earrings reflect renewal, harmony, and cultural heritage through refined craftsmanship and layered color.
Description
Dentalium – Green Top Rainbow Earrings are a vivid expression of movement, tradition, and color. Slender dentalium shells create the graceful 5.5-inch drop, accented with silver beads, glass beads, silver cone beads, and leather elements in tones of white, green, orange, red, blue, pink, silver, and brown. The green top detail anchors the vibrant rainbow palette, creating visual balance and depth. Carefully handwoven using durable Nymo thread and finished with surgical steel components, the 1 × 5.5-inch silhouette offers fluid motion and bold 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. Dentalium shells were often used to adorn dresses, necklaces, earrings, and ceremonial regalia, reflecting prosperity, honor, and cultural identity.
The rainbow-inspired palette evokes themes of unity, diversity, and harmony within the natural world. The cascading form represents continuity and renewal, while the layered colors reflect balance and interconnectedness.
Dentalium – Green Top Rainbow Earrings honor heritage, vitality, and enduring cultural symbolism through a vibrant yet graceful silhouette.
Details
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Colors: White, green, orange, red, blue, pink, silver, brown
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Materials: Dentalium shells, silver beads, glass beads, silver cone beads, leather, Nymo thread, surgical steel
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Size: 1 × 5.5 inches
Care Instructions: Wipe with damp cloth and keep dry. Dentalium is a delicate shell and can break or crack if you are rough with it. Even though the Nymo thread is nylon based 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.
