[Jewelry making - Article 00622] - Re: [Orchid] Jewelry and "Cultural Property"

[Karen Bahr]

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Hello M'lou

    The irony in this discussion is that most symbols in most cultures
    can also be found in prior cultures to those again. For example the
    cross was used in cultures predating the Christians; the swastika was
    used by cultures predating the nazi's; hands, eyes, circles, spirals
    etc. were all used by many cultures around the world for thousands of
    years, some of which occurred simultaneously in different countries. 

    As to the hand of Fatima I found this reference in a simple Google
    search: [Khamsa used as a pendant The Khamsa (Arabic CEE3D3C9,
    literally "five-fold"), the symbol or design known in some Arabic
    societies as the Hand of Fatima, sometimes the Eye of Fatima, and in
    Jewish lore as the Hand of Miriam or Hamesh Hand, serves as an
    ancient talismanic way of averting the evil eye, or more generally of
    providing a "protecting hand" or "Hand of God".]
    http://www.answers.com/topic/khamsa 

    Thus being said I will use symbols from other cultures in my art but
    I try not to copy them exactly and definitely do not try to make that
    cultures' religious pieces as I am not of those beliefs. The symbols
    alone and mixed with other things makes them my own but I do not try
    to 'copy' another culture for my own. Influences from those cultures
    okay. 

Karen Bahr
Karen's Artworx

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