Navajo Male and Female Banded Stone Fetish

ca. 1970s

1.25" H x 7.25" L x 3.5" W, 3" L - 2 Figures

Hand Made Male and Female Stone Fetishes with Multi Color Yarn and Peacock Feathers with Six Turquoise Eyes and Mouths Plus Three Stone Rods

In Very Good Condition

Navajo male and female banded stone fetishes are traditional ceremonial objects used by Navajo (Diné) medicine men (hataałii). They are stick-like cylinders of aragonite—commonly called “mirage stone”—worked to roughly the thickness and length of a small finger.