I engraved this 1 1/8'' round section of tagua nut with a clipper ship sailing in the moonlight, in 2000 and signed
Daniel Kiracofe, and mounted as a pendant necklace.
The soft 3mm black leather 23'' cord has a brass lobster claw clasp attached to a screw eye that has been drilled and threaded into the pendant.
Tagua is also known as "vegetable ivory" because its engrave-ability is similar to that of animal ivory.
The tagua nut is a dried seed,about the size of a chicken egg, from the tagua palm tree, which grows in tropical rain forests of South America.