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Ancient diggings in the American Southwest are evidence
of how, 1,500 years ago, early dwellers mined turquoise.
These same people followed trade routes to the Pacific
Ocean and the Sea of Cortez to obtain shells to use whole
or to make into beads. In the mid 1850s, Mexican silversmiths
traveled north with silver trinkets to trade, leaving
behind the new skill of working with metal. Southwest
Indian jewelry is now, as it always has been, in continuous
evolution--reaching out to discover and adapt new forms,
materials and methods. Blending the traditional and the
new allows the creation of jewelry which, while ever-changing,
retains the integrity of the cultures which inspire it.
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