Vera Russell Pink Terracotta Protection Turtle

Featuring pink terracotta turtle with an obsidian carved arrowhead tied on its back with burlap twine. The meaning is the turtle is for longevity/protection, arrow for direction/protection, obsidian point for "cutting" negativity from your life. Finished with 22k gold detail. Vera Russel, wasn't Taos Pueblo herself — she was a non-Native studio potter working in New Mexico in the 1970s-90s who built a whole collectible line of pastel, sand-textured pottery with 22k (sometimes listed as 24k) gold trim. Bears, turtles, buffalos, howling coyotes, Pueblo women — all hand-formed. Measures: 3"W x 4 1/2" L x 2" tall 22k gold detail Obsidian arrowhead