| Santo Domingo Indians The Santo Domingos are very well known for there bead jewelry and especially turquoise bead jewelry. They are the leading producer of the sliced handmade flat circular beads known as heishi. Some heishi necklaces contain over 10,000 beads so finely cut they look like strands of hair. Other than Santo Domingo beads, its artists are also famous for inlaid pieces, often featuring turquoise on shell bases, and for slab jewelry of both genuine and chalk (reconstituted) gemstone, mainly turquoise tab earrings. Santo Domingo jewelry made today is very similar to Anasazi jewelry foundin digs at Chaco Canyon and Mesa Verde. |
Some of the jewelry found in these digs is more than a thousand years old.Santo Domingo jewelry is famous for its hand-rolled turquoise heishi beads. These Beads are very fine, some of the best heishi on the market. The Santo Domingo Pueblo is located near the located near the original Cerrillos turquoise mines, and the people have a distinguished history of jewelry making. Copyright 2012 |
