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Title: Guide leaflet
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: American Museum of Natural History Natural history
Publisher: New York : The Museum
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
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hanistan came the deep blue lapislazuli, one of the earliest stones to be usedby man, and here wrought into roughlyangular unpolished forms, mere lumps ofstone with the sides rubbed smooth.From Europe came caravans bearingamber from the Baltic which was carvedinto flat cylindrical beads with rounded sides, quite different in appearance fromtliose of Central and Northern Europe.And most important and significant of all,from the ancient mines near Nishapur innortheastern Persia came the turquoiswhich has so long been associated withIranian culture, and which was carved intonecklace beads, whose rude, thickeneddisks suggest those made today by theNavajo and Pueblo Indians of our ownSouthwest. Almost incredibly old are the long,cylindrical beads of Chinese jade whichrepresent one of the earliest uses to whichinhabitants of the Flowery Kingdomput their national gem stone. Only one civilization other than Chinahas made use of jade for personal adorn-ment. Necklace beads of jade, irregularly
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AN EARLY PERSIAN NECKLACEThis string of necklace beads was fashionedrough lumps of lapis lazuli, brought by theing caravans from Afghanistan from .trad- I i TllK AXTIQIH USK OF CFMS roiiiulod but nicely polisluMl, liavo Ixhmifound among the remains of the Zapoteccuhure of ancient Mexico which flourishedat about the bep;inninj2; of our (Ma. lvirli(M-beads from Central America are v(m-vroughly fashioned out of rock crystal,and a very recent excavation has broughtto light beautiful necklace jewelry fromMexico in which brilliant, translucent,green jade has been combined with goldin a manner that would do credit to amodern designer. In the bazaars of India, Ceylon, andBurmah, there sit today, as their fore-bears have sat for centuries, the EastIndian gem cutters, fashioning necklacebeads from the gem stones of theircountries. Sapphires, rubies, garnets, arich wealth of color go into these neck-laces, the elements of which are sometimesroughly faceted, but more often of some-what irregular

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