Northwest Coast Native Jewelry – Stands As The Test Of Time

Northwest Coast Native Jewelry refers to jewelry items for personal adornment. They used to make it for meeting various purposes like personal use and selling in the market. As the most popular pieces, we have bracelets, necklaces, rings and earrings. Apart from these, we have wampum, ketohs, and labrets.

Northwest Coast Native Jewelry is made of from various materials like vegetal fibers, hardwoods, metals, semi-precious gemstones or precious. Besides they would use animal materials like bones, teeth, hide or man-made materials like quillwork and beadwork. Beaders, metal smiths, carvers, and lapidaries merge these materials to make new jewelry materials. This jewelry ranges from processed stones, titanium jewelry and hand-quarried material shells to various types of computer-fabricated steel.

The most popular jewelry blend three most interesting and beautiful sides of all jewelry. These beautiful sides Northwest Coast Native Jewelry are the workmanship of handmade pieces, the solidity of the materials used and the complex heritage behind each piece.

When we think of their native jewelry the first thing which comes to our mind are pieces especially which feature sterling silver, bright golden, turquoise blue and coral. Anyway a great variety of materials have been conventionally used for making jewelry like animal teeth, plant fibers, woods, bones and hide as well as quills.

Some of the communities are known for their ideograms within their art and jewelry works. They are well known for their expertise in grafting, painting and making jewelry. Most of the tribes worked with what was to hand over in their areas. They have shaped and designed indicative pieces and some interesting. The Native Americans lived in Great Plains areas was  highly famous for their jewelry and beadwork made of from shells, porcupine quills, brown coal, and long type bones and some popular types of beads called hair pipes.

The Northeastern Woodlands tribes are well known for their popular artworks with whole shell beads, barrel-shaped shell beads and wampum. Over all the exquisite ornament of them, there is the presence of something live and organic. Heavy flowers, beautiful trees, hunchbacked birds and crooked serpents all are very interesting. They accentuate different sentiments by the very splendor and contrast of their various colors with the servility, richness and monotony of their symbols and shapes. This jewelry can easily arrest the attention of the beauty lover. They are highly popular and stand as the test of time. If you are a lover of antiquity, you can make a try for them.