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Today’s Kewa roadside and art gallery culture has a lot to do with their strategic position prior to the colonization of the Americas by the Spaniards. The Kewa are well-known potters and jewelers. Kewa Jewelry. Aside from their location on major travel routes, the Kewa profited, as traders, from another geographic advantage: the location of […]
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Though turquoise is only a moderately hard mineral (5-6 on the Moh’s Scale), it is still not an easy mineral to cut. Why? Well, actually there are a couple of reasons. One is in fact the softness and the other has to do with its crystalline structure. Every mineral has a structure—which is the arrangement […]
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Ancient Egyptian Turquoise: The Riches of Hathor’s Mines Thousands of years ago, ancient native Egyptians called the Monitu in the Sinai Peninsula plunged deep into echoing chasms searching for a flash of blue lightly speckled with matrix. The prized turquoise veins of the Serabit el-Khadim and Wadi Maghareh mines have yielded breathtaking stone specimens since […]
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“If you’re going to spend money on a piece, you’ll want to know what it is.” That’s the opinion of jeweler James Baldwin and it’s one most buyers likely share. Authenticity is an important part of a sale. Getting exactly what you want for the money you spend makes the whole deal sweeter. It is […]
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