One of A kind, handcrafted ring featuring a beautiful hand cut wampum cabochon. Deep lavender/purple with mild white striations. Wampum is carved from the quahog clam shell, found only along the Atlantic seacoast. It is the traditional shell of the Eastern Woodlands tribes of North America. I have had this piece for some years and it finally found it's vessel.
Ring face has been fabricated from sterling silver sheet. Hand sawn, hand stamped and embellished with sterling silver fused barnacles and swirls. The ring band has been hand stamped with mermaid scales.
The barnacles have extra special meaning for me because some of my favorite surf spots here in New England require a delicate navigation through barnacle and periwinkle covered rocks also known in surfing terms as the “rockdance”.
