Sentences with phrase «of shell beads»

Over the course of late prehistory, millions of shell beads were manufactured and traded from Santa Cruz Island.

A close examination of shell beads from Blombos Cave (top) suggests that ancient humans there started off with one style of jewelry (bottom) and then shifted to another (middle) ov

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When Bernstein used to teach at New York University's Stern School of Business, he would ask his students what the difference was between gold and wampum, the shell beads American Indians used to trade.

The Discovery Box Ocean Exploration sensory bin comes with blue water beads, shells, colorful fish, sparkly gems, and ocean plants with lots of different textures.

With a few of dainty shell beads and ribbons, you can make out a very cute mothers day charm bracelet for the upcoming Day.

Discovery Boxes include creatures, gems and miniature plants, rocks, shells, beads, and characters within a portable sensory bin with lots of sensory colors and textures.

Sequence of causal and timing factors According to Hill, who has studied hunter - gatherers in South America for nearly 30 years, whether by shell beads, other kinds of gifts or through female transfer, the traits of cognition, culture and cooperation would eventually lead to specializations and government.

* A South African cave yields 75,000 - year - old pieces of shell - bead jewelry, the earliest evidence of symbolic thinking by humans.

The «necklaces» are tiny: beads of animal teeth, shells, and ivory no more than a centimeter long.

This tradition includes bone awls and sophisticated stone spear points and knives, as well as beads from jewelry: sixty - eight specimens of the southern African tick shell, Nassarius kraussianus, most found clustered together and thought to be part of individual necklaces or bracelets.

Marks on the side were characteristic of rubbing against adjacent shell beads, while traces of red ochre may have come from contact with body paint.

He adds that the shell beads come from a time when overall cultural innovation among early humans appears to have been speeding up, as evidenced by the short - lived nature of the Still Bay itself, which was soon replaced with other stone and bone tool styles.

A variety of gifts were interred with the dead: pottery, bone and stone beads and pendants, stone axes made of metamorphic rocks, flint and obsidian blades, shell pendants, and shell and bead necklaces.

Deep inside the 650 - room Chaco Canyon compound in New Mexico lies the richest burial in the U.S. Southwest: the body of a 40 - year - old man, surrounded by rare shells; a conch trumpet; and more than 11,000 turquoise beads and pendants.

The ancient finds, referred to as shell beads by Abdeljalil Bouzouggar of the National Institute of Archaeological and Historical Sciences in Rabat, Morocco, and his coworkers, come from snails of the same genus as do 75,000 - year - old perforated shells previously discovered in South Africa.

At another site in South Africa called Blombos Cave archaeologist Christopher Henshilwood of the University of Bergen in Norway has recovered shell beads and engraved pieces of iron oxide as well as tools wrought from bone, dating back to 71,000 years ago.

I've purchased fancy hair ties in the past - ones with tortoise shell and beading, but when the elastics break, you're out of luck.

The coconut shell beads are hand - painted and paired with silvery white beads of ivory wood.

Like the treasures found at the seashore, this necklace is made with striped dyed howlite beads, resin coral and genuine shell are knotted in 2 rows of 14k gold plated...

Like the treasures found at the seashore, this necklace is made from glass pearl beads, resin coral and genuine shell are knotted in 2 rows of 14k gold plated fine...

Elegant vintage 1960s black wool knit shell top encrusted with thousands of sparkling sequins and beads.

With only a few days until Coachella kicks off, obsess over our pick of the best turquoise jewelry for summer, from cowri shells ringed with turquoise beads, to raw stones with natural marbling and charm necklaces to layer up.

Striking Carambola Café Nacre Star Fruit Necklace, comprising of nine shell / mother of pearl beads, each measuring approx. 55 mm x 40 mm; held together by a fabulous coordinating sterling...

The third longest layer is an eclectic mix of yarn tassels shells and beads all coming together with a lobster clasp and embossed logo tag with moonstone cabochon.

Designed by Ali Mohammed rings of green colored coconut shell hooked with an array of sese wood beads make up the length of the necklace.

Coconut shell and sese wood beads in an eclectic range of colors make up this charming necklace from Ghana.

The artisan alternates sese wood beads in mustard yellow and teal on one side of the necklace and then combines those same wood beads with teal colored freeform triangular pieces of coconut shell for the center and other side.

Environmental science teacher Carolyn Stein recalls that when she mentioned in class how much she liked the mineral hematite, one student made «a beautiful necklace of various shell beads and hematite.

Many of these islanders mined extensive chert deposits for making tools and produced «shell - bead money,» used as a major trade item by tribes throughout California.

What the Peers did uncover was bored shells, pieces of human bones, bits of rope, beads made from ostrich egg shells, ornaments and arrow heads, which meant that the cave had been used by Strandlopers (beach walkers)-- Khoisan who spent their time combing the beach for food along the south - western African coast.

Beads made from Olivella shells were manufactured on the Channel Islands and used as a form of currency by the Chumash.

The Santa Cruz Island Chumash produced shell beads that they used for currency, which formed an important part of the overall Chumash economy.

Those living on the east end of the island mined chert from the numerous island outcroppings to make tiny blades for drilling holes to make the shell disc beads.

The artist presents a conglomeration of objects and materials: hand - embroidered fabric, leather, wood, inlaid Formica, wicker, feathers, beads, shells, woven straw — and drawings of cats — forming a conceptually bewildering installation.

Named for a genre of North American folk art in which everyday utilitarian objects such as vases are coated with a claylike substance and then embedded with small objects including shells, beads and buttons, Kelley's Memory Ware series consists both of wall - hung works (known as Memory Ware Flats) and freestanding pieces.

Often monumental in scale and interlaced with shells, beads, and feathers, her art took on a mystical quality — a «defiance of ordinary verbal communication,» she called it.

This stunning exhibition of treasures from South Africa includes a 77,000 - year - old shell bead necklace from the Blombos cave in Western Cape, revealing that artistic practice began thousands of centuries before we ever imagined.

Rina Banerjee makes sculptures out of beads, lamps, shells, fabrics and other baubles to make work that is like a feminist fantasia.

She transformed the surface of the canvas with various materials, such as fabrics, mirrors, beads, shells, plastic buttons, etc., which she combined with pure colours.

«Memory ware» refers to a folk practice in Canada, where an assortment of objects — jugs, boxes, vases, picture frames, ashtrays and other keepsakes — are decoupaged in memorabilia, tchotchkes and trinkets of sentimental and decorative value including the buttons, single earrings, broken jewelry, badges and pins, brooches, coins, shells, beads, pearls, tiled made from broken tea cups and other charms.

It's a full body outline of «him» in canvas, hanging flat — perhaps, creepily, like a flayed skin — with a painted mask for a face, shells for ears, beads for eyes, braided animal - fur hair teasing out his «Indianness,» and a Day - Glo yellow - and - red cast of a penis jutting out, with comic exoticism.

Image: Power Figure (Nkishi) with Mambele (Cowrie Shells) Unidentified Songye (Kalebwe subgroup) artist, late 19th - early 20th century Between the Lubefu and Lomami rivers, East Kasai Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo Wood, metal, cowrie shells, fiber, beads, animal hide, organic materials 21 x 6 x 5 1/2 inches (53.3 x 15.2 x 14 cm) The Allan Stone CollShells) Unidentified Songye (Kalebwe subgroup) artist, late 19th - early 20th century Between the Lubefu and Lomami rivers, East Kasai Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo Wood, metal, cowrie shells, fiber, beads, animal hide, organic materials 21 x 6 x 5 1/2 inches (53.3 x 15.2 x 14 cm) The Allan Stone Collshells, fiber, beads, animal hide, organic materials 21 x 6 x 5 1/2 inches (53.3 x 15.2 x 14 cm) The Allan Stone Collection

She then began an almost magical process of transforming the surface of her paintings with materials, such as traditional cloth, shells, buttons, beads, mirrors and other objects.

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