Am guessing horn; the parallel striations are typical of horn - unless you can brightly look into each perforation and see cross-hatching. Then,...
Exactly.
Wow; gorgeous!
Depends on venue, ya know?
Wow; am impressed. Will have to look up 'leaverite.' Am guessing a few of the turquoise looking nuggets may be dyed & stabilized turquoise?...
Exactly. It'd take awhile to identify the specific god.
Spot on! Of course you knew, we knew you'd know, now we all know....yada, yada (thanks!).
Agreed, can we divide them up somehow? Some may be turquoise, some dyed howlite, some dyed and stabilized chaulk turquoise, some dyed magnetite...
If it helps, in bead collector/archaeology/anthropology vernacular, the ones with flowers are called "fancies," the ones also called sputnik are...
Mine are in two acid free archival boxes used by museum curators, separated by acid free tabbed dividers. I used the same system for my...
Sweeeeet! Love it.
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