Vintage 950 Silver Spiral Pendant Necklace

Beautiful vintage silver pendant featuring a bold, hand-worked spiral, one of the most enduring symbols found in Indigenous art of the Southwest. The bail is marked 950, denoting high-purity silver, and the pendant is paired with a substantial sterling silver snake chain to make a distinct necklace ready to wear. 

Among many Southwestern cultures, spiral motifs also evoke the migration of ancestors, the passage of time, water, wind, and the cycles of nature. Its simple, powerful form has appeared for centuries in pottery, petroglyphs, basketry, and jewelry in the Southwest as well as across the world.