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2. Zuni fetishes - Wikipedia

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   Fetish necklaces can be single stranded or have multiple strands. It is believed that each carved animal depicted in the necklace has a spirit that resides within it. With the emergence of Zuni jewelry created for sale or trade in the 20th century, in particular in the 1960s and 1970s, a more realistic carving style developed.

3. Cameo (carving) - Wikipedia

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   A cameo carved into the dorsum of a shell of the tiger cowry, Cypraea tigris. Since the late 19th century, the species most used in good-quality cameos has been Cypraecassis rufa, the bullmouth helmet, the shell of which can be up to 6 inches long. In this species, the upper shell layer is whitish, and the lower shell layer is a rich orange-brown.

4. Dzi bead - Wikipedia

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   Meteorite DZI bead "9 eyes" carved from Aletai iron meteorite A nice dzi should be made of good quality agate with the cutting, drilling and decorating taking many days. Modern methods and technology such as lasers, modern sugars and chemicals, and vacuum chambers can produce very good results. [ 2 ]

5. Victorian jewellery - Wikipedia

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   The fossilised material, jet was valued because it was lightweight, intense black in colour, durable, inexpensive and could be easily carved. [3] [10] Jet was used to design mourning jewellery such as bracelets, necklaces, brooches, cameos and pendants. [8] [10] After the death of Prince Albert, Queen Victoria’s love of jewellery was less ...

6. Tiger's eye - Wikipedia

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   Tiger's eye (also called tiger eye) is a chatoyant gemstone that is usually a metamorphic rock with a golden to red-brown colour and a silky lustre.As members of the quartz group, tiger's eye and the related blue-coloured mineral hawk's eye gain their silky, lustrous appearance from the parallel intergrowth of quartz crystals and altered amphibole fibres that have mostly turned into limonite.

7. Jewellery - Wikipedia

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   Jewellery (or jewelry in American English) consists of decorative items worn for personal adornment such as brooches, rings, necklaces, earrings, pendants, bracelets, and cufflinks. Jewellery may be attached to the body or the clothes. From a western perspective, the term is restricted to durable ornaments, excluding flowers for example.