[Jewelry making - Article 00612] - Re: [Orchid] [Workshop] Creating your own Talismanic

[John Donivan]

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>     connected to some "found object" that imitates a cultures
>     identifying belief system through symbolic representations of
>     protection tools from perceived negative forces at play in the
>     realm of super-natural (meaning other than natural) world as
>     experienced by a particular group or the practitioner's of a belief
>     system 

    Haven't really followed this thread, just a rainy SF afternoon. I
    think I can put what RE said more directly, though her thoughts were
    interesting. When I made turqoise jewelry in Albuq. someone said
    that I wasn't making Indian jewelry, though it was in the style, and
    I never could because I'm not Indian. I realized that it was true,
    and not because they said it, but that it's true. Cultural jewelry
    of all kinds, talismatic or otherwise, is a product of the culture
    and comes out of the culture and an outsider doing it can only copy
    or emulate it. I can, to a large degree, look at Indian jewelry and
    tell you if it's Indian made - largely, not infallibly. If people
    want to study or make "talismanic jewelry" that's fine, I just think
    it's important to understand what RE said, and this post - you can
    make it, but if you don't live it it's not the real thing. Nothing
    wrong with that, it's just good to understand it.

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