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Plateau dentalium choker and bracelet, from Nez Perce National Historical Park, 19th century, made using Antalis pretiosa shells. The word dentalium, as commonly used by Native American artists and anthropologists, refers to tooth shells or tusk shells used in indigenous jewelry, adornment, and commerce in western Canada and the United States.
The collection was reported to have 360 jewelry items, miniature boxes and timepieces. After her husband died in 1877 she continued to collect. She documented each purchase carefully, so for example in one of her booklets between notes for the cost of washing and butter there is mention of a brooch and earring set from Tiger teeth. [1]
Shell jewelry is jewelry that is primarily made from seashells, the shells of marine mollusks. Shell jewelry is a type of shellcraft . One very common form of shell jewelry is necklaces that are composed of large numbers of beads , where each individual bead is the whole (but often drilled) shell of a small sea snail .
The meaning of the Tibetan word "dzi" [གཟི།] translates to "shine, brightness, clearness, splendor". In mainland China and Taiwan they are widely known by the name "天珠, tīan zhū", which is given by Taiwanese collectors and means "heaven's bead" in Mandarin Chinese.
A live textile cone snail from Australia. The terminal helix of the shell of a cone snail is cone-shaped, and closed at the apex. When the empty shell is rolled over a long time by the waves in the breaking surf and coral rubble, the terminal helix of the shell breaks off or is gradually ground off, leaving the solid top of the shell intact.
Perry, who wrote and directed the new movie “The Six Triple Eight,” said on TODAY on Dec. 16 that he wears his late mother’s necklace that has a deep connection to him and siblings.
The Balinese considered the ground powder of tiger whiskers to be a potent and undetectable poison for one's foe. A Balinese baby was given a protective amulet necklace with black coral and "a tiger's tooth or a piece of tiger bone". [13] The traditional Balinese Barong dance preserves a figure with the mask of a tiger called Barong Macan. [14]
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