Agate Sterling Silver Pendant Green and Tibetan jewelry traditions for

and Tibetan jewelry traditions for centuries

where it was first described by Europeans in 1770

with vitreous luster

Amethyst is the violet variety of quartz—Mohs hardness 7—its color produced by trace iron and natural irradiation during crystal growth

Sedona has been a place of ceremony and significance to the Yavapai-Apache Nation since long before European contact

Agate Sterling Silver Pendant Green and Tibetan jewelry traditions forA banded agate set in solid . 925 sterling silver. Agate is a microcrystalline variety of quartzchalcedony deposited in fine concentric bands as silica rich water filled a cavity in volcanic rock layer by layer. Each line marks a separate deposition, in tones that shift from translucent to opaque. Cut and polished, the pattern reads as a cross section of that slow growth. Agate has been worked since antiquity; Greek and Roman lapidaries carved it into