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Serpentine Polished Rock Bear Canyon Arizona
This beautiful piece of Serpentine (sometimes called Arizona Pietersite) from the Bear Canyon Mine, Sontag Creek, Bear Canyon Junction area, Gila County, Arizona, is slabbed and polished on one face, left natural rough on the back.
It is 3.65 inches long by .2.6 inches wide and 1.36 inches thick.
It does stand on its own as shown in the first picture.
This rare semiprecious stone material is known as "Arizona Pietersite" because of its superb chatoyant cat's eye effect. It has a lightening flash when light hits certain areas of it!
It has also been called Arizona Tiger's Eye.
The lapidary material is actually Serpentine and comes in several varieties-from gold to root beer to silver flash, and from green to brown Serpentine.
The bear is the symbol of maternal protection, as well as strength, courage, power and honor. A bear fetish is believed to lighten emotional burdens. Many civilizations have myths regarding bears, from the Greeks and the Celts to the Ainu of northern Japan and the tribes of North America.
This is carved in the shape of the traditional Zuni fetish bear, but it was not carved by a Zuni artist.
