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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. Shell jewelry - Wikipedia

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   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 .

4. Scarab (artifact) - Wikipedia

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   Heart scarabs were often hung around the mummy's neck with a gold wire and the scarab itself was held in a gold frame. The base of a heart scarab was usually carved, either directly or on a gold plate fixed to the base, with hieroglyphs which name the deceased and repeat some or all of spell 30B from the Book of the Dead. The spell commands the ...

5. Inventory of Elizabeth I - Wikipedia

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   no. 5 The queen's sceptre with a dove intended for a queen consort). One sceptre was repaired by Cornelis Hayes for the coronation of Anne Boleyn, and later issued to Dorothy Bulstrode for a masque of Anne of Denmark, and a gold wing was lost. [5] [6] no. 6 A pair of bracelets with six rubies and seven large pearls and five smaller pearls, with ...

6. Jewellery - Wikipedia

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   A young girl was buried with: 2 silver fibulae, a necklace (with coins), bracelet, gold earrings, a pair of hair-pins, comb, and buckle. [49] The Celts specialised in continuous patterns and designs, while Merovingian designs are best known for stylised animal figures. [50] They were not the only groups known for high quality work.

7. Pectoral (Ancient Egypt) - Wikipedia

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   The pectorals of ancient Egypt were a form of jewelry, often in the form of a brooch. They are often also amulets, and may be so described. They were mostly worn by richer people and the pharaoh. One type is attached with a nah necklace, suspended from the neck and lying on the breast.