Cherokee Traditional Gorget in the Making ~ Conner & James manned the Trading Area Oconaluftee Indian Village ~ Cherokee, North Carolina

            The Cherokee created, purchase & wore large quantities of silver jewelry, including rings, bracelets, earrings, ear plugs, arm bands, & medallion as well as scalloped turban bands & hair pins.  
The use of silver was later replaced with copper.
Cherokee artist shaped brass wire into bracelets, strung glass trade beads on wire as necklaces & wore beads & ornaments in the nose.
They also reshaped parts of guns for tools to make jewelry of their own.
*The Jamestown colonists traded glass beads and copper to the Powhatan Indians in exchange for desperately needed corn. 
   

Taken on: May 1, 2018

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