Shell gorgets are a Native American art form of polished, carved shell pendants worn around the neck. The gorgets are frequently engraved, and are sometimes...
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A gorget (/ˈɡɔːrdʒɪt/ GOR-jit; from Old French gorge 'throat') was a band of linen wrapped around a woman's neck and head in the medieval period or the...
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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...
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Pre-Columbian spider image from a conch shell gorget at the Great Mound at Spiro, Oklahoma...
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cedar tree, or the striped-center-pole, is found on engraved conch shell gorgets, with human or animal figures positioned on either side. The concept...
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their shells for tools, ornaments, containers and to make jewelry, i.e. shell gorgets. For example, the Indigenous peoples of Florida used their shells as...
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Muscogee Creek, Tunica, and many other southeastern peoples. Engraved shell gorget, Spiro Mounds, Oklahoma (Mississippian culture) Ceremonial stone mace...
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Possible representation of Hero Twins on an engraved shell gorget from Spiro Mounds, Oklahoma...
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Mexico and the coasts of California into the Plains since 100 CE. Mussel shell gorgets, dentalia, and abalone were prized trade items for jewelry. Bones provided...
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exchange network. This kind of network may be illustrated by a pair of shell gorgets whose representation is so similar as to suggest that they were made...
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with ground mussel shells occasionally being used. Over time, women increasingly chose mussel shells or a mixture of mussel shells with other agents as...
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The inhabitants left no written records beyond symbols on pottery, marine shell, copper, wood, and stone, but the evidence of elaborately planned community...
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Muscogee Creek, Wichita, and many other southeastern peoples. Engraved shell gorget, Spiro Mounds (Mississippian culture) Engraved stone palette, Moundville...
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forelock, hair style (head shaved except for top-knot) and other attachments (shell, stone and copper ornaments) usually worn by mythological figures on their...
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Yaupon tea (section Shell cups)
The significance of the shell cups may indicate the beginning of black drink ceremonialism. The fact that both the shells and the yaupon holly come...
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The Holly Oak Gorget or Holly Oak Pendant is an artifact made from a section of shell that is engraved with the image of an extinct woolly mammoth reportedly...
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and Tepeyollotl. A conch shell gorget depicting a jaguar was found in a burial mound in Benton County, Missouri. The gorget shows evenly-engraved lines...
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Possible representation of Hero Twins on an engraved shell gorget from Spiro Mounds, Oklahoma...
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Mississippian culture pottery (redirect from Shell tempered pottery)
adoption and use of riverine (or more rarely marine) shell-tempering agents in the clay paste. Shell tempering is one of the hallmarks of Mississippian...
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populations and craft specialization. Shell-tempered pottery. The adoption and use of riverine (or more rarely marine) shells as tempering agents in ceramics...
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Mound 72 (section Shell Bead Cache Burials)
to the northwest on an elevated platform between a bed of 10,000 marine-shell disc beads arranged in the shape of a falcon, [unreliable source?] with...
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