native metalwork

What Did The Sioux Tribe Make?

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What Did The Sioux Tribe Make? Sioux women are known for their decorative embroidery with beads and porcupine quills, and the men are known for their elaborate buffalo-hide paintings. Sioux artists also make clay pots, star quilt blankets, and ceremonial calumets (pipes carved from catlinite.) What tribe made silver and turquoise jewelry? Descendants of the

Where Did Indians Find Turquoise?

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Where Did Indians Find Turquoise? In North America, turquoise first appeared to be mined and used around 200 B.C. by the Hohokam and Anasazi people. These early Native Indians mined the famous Cerrillos and Burro Mountains of what is now New Mexico and in Arizona the Kingman turquoise mine and Morenci turquoise mine. Why do