Jewelry made from disk-shaped beads of shell or stone. Each bead begins as a tiny flat piece and a tiny stringing hole is drilled though the fragment. Many of these jagged pieces are strung together tightly on a wire and are then sanded into evenness using a fine-grained sandstone and then sandpaper. The result is a very smooth strand of disk-shap...
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Definition: Small tube beads in shell, precious metal or stone. Also called (when in silver) 'liquid silver'. Derivation: From native American language. ?Navajo Citation: 'Text '. Source .
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Term applied to conscripted infantry of the Yamato Period.
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