Green Gold Bone Tassels Choker

Description

Green Gold Bone Tassels Choker is a striking and deeply meaningful expression of Indigenous artistry and sacred cultural symbolism worn at the most vulnerable and spiritually significant of all places — the throat. Measuring 13 × 1 inch with 9 inches of leather cord on each side for a fully adjustable, comfortable fit, brass beads, bone beads, horn spacers, and pony beads are meticulously assembled with Nymo thread on leather and finished with leather cord for a secure and authentically traditional closure. The 4-inch tassels cascade from the body of the choker with the graceful, generous movement of a design that carries itself with the quiet, grounded confidence of the living natural world — the downward fall of the tassels adding the ceremonially resonant quality of fringe to an already visually complete and deeply intentional piece, their length giving this choker a warm, nature-rooted presence that moves with the wearer with the alive, unhurried rhythm of something fully at ease in its own beauty and purpose. The rich, living green pony beads move through the design with the deep, fertile abundance of the natural world at its most generative and life-sustaining — a color that has always spoken the language of growth, renewal, and the sacred vitality of a living earth in its most full and generous expression, the warm, burnished gold brass beads radiating with the golden richness of a metal long associated with abundance, solar warmth, and the generous, outward-flowing energy of the earth’s most honored material, the clean bone of the beads carrying the elemental, enduring clarity of a material drawn from the deepest structure of the living world, the horn spacers adding the quiet, organic beauty of a material shaped by the natural world’s own patient and purposeful processes, and the warm brown leather and commanding black anchoring the entire composition with the quiet, enduring authority of natural materials that have always been at the very center of Indigenous craft and ceremonial practice.

In Native American tradition, the choker carries one of the most layered and historically grounded of all symbolic meanings — a form of adornment whose significance reaches back through centuries of cultural practice, ceremony, and lived experience. Historically, the choker served as a form of physical protection for the neck and throat in battle — guarding one of the body’s most vulnerable places against arrows and weapons with the combined strength of its materials and the spiritual intention woven into its making. To wear a choker was to go into the world protected, armored not only by the physical presence of the piece but by the sacred purpose with which it had been created and the spiritual forces it had been made to invoke.

The 4-inch tassels of this design carry their own deeply resonant ceremonial significance — the generous downward cascade of bead-tipped strands evoking the life-giving flow of water, the sacred fringed regalia of ceremonial dress, and the abundant, downward-reaching energy of a design that is always moving, always alive, always reaching toward the earth with the same purposeful grace that the finest ceremonial adornment has always embodied. In many Native American traditions, fringe and tassel elements in ceremonial dress and adornment have carried the specific symbolic function of representing rain — the most sacred and life-giving of all natural gifts in the landscapes where so much of Indigenous North American life has always been lived. To wear the tassels is to carry the prayer for abundance and the continued generosity of the natural world close to the body and close to the voice — the place where prayers are spoken and the breath that carries them is formed.

The green, gold, and bone palette of this choker carries its own deeply resonant and nature-rooted spiritual quality — green as one of the most universally life-affirming of all colors in Indigenous artistic tradition, associated with the fertile, growing abundance of the earth in its most generous and vital season, carrying within its deep, living tone the same patient, regenerative energy as the forest itself — quietly powerful, deeply rooted, and alive with the inexhaustible creative force of a world that has never stopped growing toward the light. Gold speaks to the warm, generous brilliance of the sun whose light makes that growth possible — the divine abundance that flows to those who move through the world with gratitude, honor, and the deep, purposeful intention of a life lived in full awareness of its own sacred worth. Bone grounds the entire palette in the elemental, enduring truth of the natural world at its most essential and most patient — a material that has outlasted everything around it and will continue to outlast everything around it with the quiet, undemanding permanence of something that has never needed to announce its endurance to anyone.

Beyond the battlefield, the choker has always carried the deeper meanings of wealth, social standing, and cultural identity. Among many tribes and clans, specific pieces are constructed and blessed by designated individuals — spiritual practitioners, elders, and artisans whose knowledge and authority give the finished piece a dimension of sacred power that goes beyond its physical beauty. A blessed choker carries spiritual protection, peace, and blessing for the wearer — a living talisman whose power moves with the person through every situation and every challenge, worn close to the very place where the voice rises and the breath moves and the life of the individual finds its most intimate and irreplaceable expression.

Green Gold Bone Tassels Choker brings these layered meanings together in a beautifully crafted and deeply personal form — a handcrafted tribute to protection, identity, and the enduring cultural significance of one of Native American adornment’s most ancient, naturally grounded, and spiritually resonant traditions expressed in its most nature-rooted and abundantly beautiful register.

Details

• Colors: Green, gold brass, bone, black, brown
• Materials: Brass beads, horn spacers, bone beads, Nymo thread, leather, leather cord, pony beads
• Size: 13 × 1 inch with 9 inches of leather cord on each side for neck adjustment, 4-inch tassels

Care Instructions: Wipe with damp cloth and keep dry. Please remember that even though the Nymo thread has a nylon base and is very strong, pulling hard and yanking on the choker can tear the thread so please be kind to it when you use it.