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Sometime in the history of Native American jewelry from the Southwest, someone named a necklace, such as this one, a squash blossom necklace.  Technically, the blossoms attached to the necklace were originally derived from the pomegranate.  The area with the small turquoise cabs that looks like a blossom and the silver protrusions were copied from silver pomegranate blossoms seen on the trousers of the vaquero from Spain and Mexico.  Regardless of the name, these have been among the most popular Native necklaces for decades, certainly as early as pre-World War II.

Read more about this Zuni necklace here..