Blended composite turquoise and spiny oyster shell sterling silver cross earrings - the Southwest cross earring in the material combination connecting the Southwestern jewelry tradition with one of the most universally meaningful symbols in jewelry vocabulary. Composite turquoise provides the blue-green ground; spiny oyster shell from the Pacific Spondylus adds warm red-to-orange accents. Together in a cross form, the two materials create a piece with both visual richness and layered symbolic meaning.