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The Santo Domingo tribe, Kiuwa, live in New Mexico on a 66,231 acre reservation and have a population of 2310 north of Albuquerque.
While contemporary Indian Jewelry has followed many paths, the work most closely linked to the work of ancestral Puebloans is the stone and shell work produced at Santo Domingo Pueblo in New Mexico.
When stone merchants come to the village, competition for turquoise and other materials is fierce. Using five gallon cans for chairs, women arrange themselves around a table piled with turquoise to individually pick stones they will use in their work. Artists also look for coral and shell without holes and in uniform color from which to make their beadwork, known as discoidal beadwork.
Beware of necklaces where beads do not fit into each other and feel rough when you run your hands down the string of disks. They do not demonstrate the fit of a proper Santo Domingo necklace.
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