Much of the jewelry has been bought through a friend or trader who paid the artists directly-a few pieces I have collected myself, and the rest are antiques, having been through several sets of hands, and thus are more expensive. Almost all of the jewelry can and should be worn, this honors the pieces and the origins the best. I hope that through the trade and use of these pieces that we can all do our part to educate ourselves and others about tribes and cultures whose use of this jewelry is becoming a thing of the past-by keeping these artists employed making their own traditional designs, we hope to help them sustain themselves through their own cultures and traditional skills, and to send a message to them and the outside world that we feel their art is valuable and beautiful, that homogeneity and adoption of Western standards is not something to strive towards. This jewelry not only brings aesthetic beauty, but a larger awareness of what we're trying to do here-sustaining the unique cultures of our world. These pieces will eventually make it over to this page, but are first being showcased for several months over on the new page.
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