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Post by rockjunquie on Feb 9, 2022 21:30:39 GMT -5
I don't know any more about it.
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Post by hummingbirdstones on Feb 9, 2022 21:35:18 GMT -5
Found this -- maybe? In North America, turquoise first appeared to be mined and used around 200 B.C. by the Hohokam and Anasazi people. These early Native Indians mined the famous Cerrillos and Burro Mountains of what is now New Mexico and in Arizona the Kingman turquoise mine and Morenci turquoise mine. At archaeological sites, turquoise jewelry of turquoise beads and Turquoise Bead Necklaces has been found. After the Anasazi people disappeared, the pueblos of Tewa, Zuni, Acoma, Santo Domingo and others were still flourishing and continued mining turquoise and using it for rituals and turquoise jewelry. They developed their skill of turquoise bead making, stone cutting and inlay work. Early Native American jewelry consisted of turquoise beads, mosaic inlay, chunky turquoise jewelry and turquoise heishi necklaces. After the Spanish introduction of silverwork, Native Americans combined their lapidary skill of stone cutting with silver to produce turquoise jewelry that is popularly known as Indian jewelry today. Taken from here
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Post by vegasjames on Feb 9, 2022 21:45:21 GMT -5
escholarship.org/uc/item/1b43r68n "Interest-ingly, however. Laird noted that ". . . the root of at least one Chemehuevi color name,'sawa-',blue or green, is virtually identical with the Tewa word for this color"
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Post by fernwood on Feb 10, 2022 1:42:41 GMT -5
All I know is that it is very pretty.
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Post by quartzilla on Feb 10, 2022 21:49:14 GMT -5
It’s gorgeous!
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Post by rockjunquie on Feb 18, 2022 0:01:11 GMT -5
I asked the seller for more information. He responded with this:
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Post by hummingbirdstones on Feb 18, 2022 9:36:17 GMT -5
That explains it! Thanks for sharing the info, Tela.
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