The trade blankets were typically dark blue duffle and decorated with buttons made from abalone or dentalium shells.
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They adorned their garments with Dentalium shell, and steelhead runs would provide a welcome supply of fish.
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Today Tanacross people see dentalium shells not only as symbols of prestige but also as expressions of affection.
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Buffalo hide clothing was decorated with porcupine quill embroidery and beads dentalium shells and elk teeth were prized materials.
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Elaborate bridal headdresses from the 19th and early 20th centuries, features dentalium shells strung on hide with Chinese brass coins and glass beads.
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""'Dentalium " "'is a large genus of tooth shells or tusk shells, marine scaphopod molluscs in the family Dentaliidae.
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The Aleuts pierced holes around the rim of their ears with dentalium shells ( tooth shells or tusk shells ), bone, feathers, dried bird wings or skulls and / or amber.
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Beads, like the dentalium they have come to replace, are symbolic of social relations that, when expressed in the form of necklaces or sashes, literally surround or embrace the individual.
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Today most dentalium shells in the shell trade are smaller, more brittle, and are harvested from coasts off Asia i . e . they are shells of Indo-Pacific species of scaphopods.
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On the Central Coast of California, shells of " Dentalium neohexagonum " ( a species that occurs from Monterey, California to Baja California ) have been recovered from prehistoric habitation sites of the Chumash, who apparently used these shells as tubes, possibly in jewelry.
