Vintage Navajo sterling silver bench bead necklace with a huge Pilot Mountain Mine turquoise stone. The stone has deep color and a marking that looks like a pool of water where someone dropped a stone and the ripples are moving. It has deep dark rusty matrix. Measures 43.1mm by 41.4mm. It is set in a plain bezel with twisted wire rope, a rolled frame and two large feathers and raindrops. Pendant measures 2 3/8” by 2 1/8”. 

The necklace has hand soldered bench beads The hogans measure 5.6 mm and 8.6 mm. The pinyon beads are 13.4 mm long. Necklace is 28” long. Weight” 68.1 grams.