HOHOKAM INDIAN SHELL BRACELETS
Ancient Hohokam Shell Jewelry by Arizona Jones in Artifacts, Hohokam on January 31, 2021 When you look at this, what do you see? The most obvious answer is a shell, but it is more than that—it is ancient jewelry! It is likely this once belonged to a member of the Hohokam culture.
Two Hohokam Shell Bracelets
The Hohokam culture consisted on a large civilization who created monumental structures throughout southern Arizona. Hohokam people were master craftspeople.
2.6" Hohokam Shell Bracelet, Arizona, Glued
Hallmarks include brown or buff-colored pottery decorated with reddish, ochre (hematite)-based paint; a highly developed tradition of shell jewelry manufacturing that included carved pendants; a growing a variety of crops, including maize (corn), various beans, squashes, and cotton, which were often irrigated by a complex system of canals and re.
Hohokam Replica Bracelet Primitive Lifeways
Bracelet manufactured from a Glycymeris valve. Top edge and exterior surface show deep, multidirectional grinding striations. Red hematite pigment on lower.
Two Hohokam Shell Bracelets
It is only in higher-value, lower-quantity artifact classes that hints appear: Hohokam shell jewelry, a Hohokam cotton garment, and other things of that nature appear at Chaco Canyon. Inter-elite exchange would probably be marked by precious materials that seldom survive: cotton, cacao, macaw feathers, or by exchange of marriage partners.
HOHOKAM INDIAN SHELL BRACELETS
The Hohokam made a 400-mile, round-trip-journey on foot collecting their favorite shell, the Glycymeris, a bivalve clam. Archaeologist Ronald Beckwith states Hohokam used no fewer than sixty-two species of marine shells for their jewelry.
4 Prehistoric Hohokam Shell Bracelets & 6 Shells
Hohokam Pottery and Jewelry. Examples of Hohokam jewelry. The ancestral Sonoran Desert people created beautiful shell jewelry including necklaces, bracelets, rings, earrings and pendants. Some of the shells were inlaid with turquoise and others had beautiful designs. To create raised designs on the shells, they used a technique called etching.
HOHOKAM INDIAN SHELL BRACELETS R. G. Munn Auction LLC
About This Object Hohokam bracelets were crafted from Glycymeris shell from the Gulf of California. The ubiquity of these bracelets, coupled with the observation that they come in various sizes, suggests that they were worn by everyone from young children to adults. Bracelets were cut from the shell, then abraded and polished.
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Beads and pendants made from whole shells and ornaments made from cut or ground shells were quite popular throughout the Hohokam era. But the ornament form that sets the Hohokam apart from other groups is the shell bracelet, which was made from the Glycymeris shell, also known as the bittersweet clam. Spondylus pendant from Valencia Vieja
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The vast majority of the shell used in the Hohokam region came from the Gulf of California and they obtained the raw pieces through direct trade. Shell crafting began in southern Arizona and northwest Mexico around 1200-850 B.C. These early forms were basic geometric shaped pendants and beads.
3 Hohokam Shell Bracelets
A common artifact found on many Hohokam sites is the carved shell bracelet (more probably armlets) made from a whole Glycymeris (a type of bivalve-clam) shell that came from the Gulf of California. Hohokam artisans used no fewer than 43 genera and 62
Very Rare Hohokam Shell Frog Bracelet
Bracelet manufactured from a Glycymeris valve. Top edge and exterior surface show some striations from smoothing and shaping, areas where upper portion of.
Hohokam Carved Shell Bracelet With remnant turquoise mosaic overlay
Some of the most common artifacts found on all of the ancient Hohokam sites in southern Arizona, and upon many of the Pueblo sites further to the north in both Arizona and New Mexico, are the thin, well-made bracelets, earrings and finger rings, fashioned from the Glycimeris shell.
3 Hohokam Shell Bracelets
Origins Where did Hohokam culture come from? To the first scientists who asked this question, the Hohokam seemed to appear in Arizona quite suddenly with the ability to build sophisticated irrigation system to water their crops. Early archaeologists proposed that Hohokam culture developed in Mexico and moved into what is now Arizona.
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Hohokam Frog Head Shell Bracelet with extra shell bracelet, ca. 1250 ad., big bracelet is approx: 3.5"wide and the small bracelet is approx: 2"wide
Hohokam shell bracelet and shell ornaments at Arizona State Museum
The Hohokam were an ancient Native American tribe located in the present U.S. state of Arizona. They thrived between A.D. ~200-1400. They created beautiful shell jewelry including necklaces, bracelets, rings, earrings and pendants. Many pieces of jewelry contained turquoise.