howardeye
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Fantastic! Number 8?
Fantastic! Number 8?
Don't count on it.I am one of those guys.
That tourist trade jewelry was designed by white traders.
It's often hard to judge someone's tone from reading text, but I'll give you the benefit of doubt that you were joshing around. Otherwise, you are selling your (those) people short. I'll give you that much jewelry traded with tourists probably is designed by whites, but much like the blanket makers of the Pacific northwest, they had to take those design ideas from somewhere. Native Americans were designing and making their own jewelry, and pawning it when they needed some extra scratch, long before white tourists started showing up and buying it. Something was already in place to drive the demand.
The original intent of my post to Alan was to suggest that perhaps the indiginous people were savvy to astronomy, which they were. Archaeological evidence suggests that pre-Columbian people had very extensive working knowledge of the movements of the stars. Even after the European invasion, when the great city states were long gone and they were living a nomadic existence in tents, they still were in tune with the changes in the sky that came with the seasons. To suggest native people of the time had no knowledge of the solar system is fairly offensive.
I have seen a lot of your art and jewelry here in the pages of FL, and you are extremely talented, so I certainly hope you weren't suggesing as much.
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Steve Yellowhorse it is as you know him well. He does not get his ideas from man but from the one and only true God that created all things and his jewelry represents those creations as you and I know very well!
Old pawn and tourist trade jewelry are two different things.
Never said they were. Perhaps I miscommunicated. The mere existence of the one (pawn jewelry) is what created and drove the market for the other. The easier it became to access the western portions of the US. by tourists, the more modern economic principles fell into place.
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Pawn jewelry did not create the market for Indian jewelry.
Michael, I'd like to be a fly on your workbench. Beautiful cuff.