As the blue offspring of the Turquois Hills The parent mount with richer glory fills, When the cloud's voice has caused the gem to spring, Responsive to its gentle thundering.
The gods have also a bunch of night-owl feathers and eagle plumes on the left side of the head; both male and female wear turquois earrings and necklaces of the same.
A third man, personating the turquois hermaphrodite Ahsonnutli, wore the usual squaw’s dress with a blanket fastened over the shoulders reaching to the ground.
Turquois and shell beads were found in considerable numbers in the excavations at Awatobi, but, as they are similar to those from Sikyatki, I have reserved a discussion of them for following pages.
Some of these turquoisbeads are simply flat fragments, perforated at one end, others are well formed.
Several shell andturquois beads were found, but my limited studies of the cliff-houses revealed only a few other ornaments, among them being beads of turkey-bone and a single wristlet fashioned from a Pectunculus.
Many skeletons had a single turquois near the mastoid process of the skull, showing that they had been worn as ear pendants.
The materials most highly prized for necklaces were turquois and shell which were fashioned into beads, some of which were finely made.
The turquois beads are often as finely cut as any now worn, and their presence in the graves led to the only serious trouble which I had with my native workmen, as they undoubtedly appropriated many which were found.
The face is painted reddish, and the ears have square pendants similar to the turquois mosaics worn by Hopi women at the present day.
The turquois is easily imitated, and that often so perfectly as to render it very difficult to distinguish the counterfeit from the true gem.
They have a stone ofTurquois from the nation of the buff and beefe, with whome they had warrs.
Bessie thanks you again for the turquois ring you sent her.
The much higher price commanded by Turquois of a blue color has led to a counterfeiting of this color by staining green Turquois or other stones with Prussian blue.
In Cochise County, Arizona, is a locality known as Turquois Mountain, where considerable mining is carried on.
The pieces desirable for cutting rarely reach a large size so that big gems of Turquois are comparatively unknown.
The mountain at which the Los Cerrillos Turquois mines occur is called Mount Chalchihuitl, in allusion to an Indian name that is supposed to have been applied to Turquois.
Further, it is lighter than true Turquois and does not give a blue color with ammonia when dissolved in hydrochloric acid, as does true turquois.
The Indians seem to have prized the Turquois highly as an ornament, rudely polishing it and using perforated pieces like the one shown in the plate for necklaces.
A good Turquois also maintains its color in artificial light.
Turquois is also mined in Gila County, Arizona; Lincoln County, Nevada, and San Bernardino County, California.
The hardness of Turquois is 6, in the scale of which quartz is 7.
Almost any of these tests will serve to distinguish true Turquois from stones used to imitate it.
In composition Turquois is a hydrous phosphate of aluminum, the percentages being: Of water, 20.
By the copper of the Turquois the blowpipe flame is usually colored green.
Much of the so-called Turquois used in former times was bone-turquois, or odontolite, made from fossil bone colored by a phosphate of iron.
In Germany the Turquois is said to be in much favor for engagement rings, owing to the belief that if either party prove inconstant the stone will make the fickleness known by weakening in color.
In the building of these houses turquois and pearly shells were freely used, as were also the transparent mists of dawn and the gorgeous colors of sunset.
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