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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 2500381, member: 2844&quot;]Mass produced is not handmade. Navajo made squash blossom necklaces are handmade. Most NA jewellery was made to be sold, and most buyers were and still are tourists, shops and galleries. Nothing wrong with that.</p><p>The distinction that is important to most people is Native made v. non-Native made.</p><p><br /></p><p>For a while the Navajo themselves used to prefer pieces that were pretty heavy from the weight of the silver and the stones, so they could be used as an investment as well as the symbolic and magico-Shamanic value, and sign of cultural identity.</p><p>On the other hand the early pieces of the 19th and early 20th century were relatively lightweight with very few or no stones. That is also the case with the squash blossom necklaces of that period.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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