Yes, it’s a bit greenish, similar to yours for sure.
@Bmpdvm I feel like your collection deserves a special shout out too; I loved seeing it! I especially love the three strand chamfered beads by Howard Tenorio. The fetish necklace is beautiful as well. And then there’s the beads in your avatar–those were not included in your post, no?
Absolutely stunning necklaces - mostly very traditional, yet they still look so chic. I love seeing those three colors, turquoise, spiney, and black jet, together like that.
Oh my OO…your pieces are fabulous and great display! Love your Ray Lovato natural No.8 single strand. It just screams No 8😄. I don’t think I’ve seen a Spiney Oyster necklace by Piki…wonderful! And that jet tab necklace is fabulous and so unusual! Don’t think I’ve seen one before. Did you have your jacla strung using those great sterling beads…I’ve thought about doing that with one of my jacla sets.
Regarding my avatar. That is a larger 3 strand Fox necklace by Ray Lovato:
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Oh my stars, what a collection you have @Bmpdvm Each one is stunning!
Thank you @here4turquoise, I have more, but enough is enough. I keep looking at your older Ray Lovato necklace…love it!
Thank you! Each member has inspired me to buy the pieces I have purchased recently. You all are my enablers.
Here’s my tiny contribution. I don’t recall when or where I purchased the turquoise/shell earrings on the left. I’d call them jacla-style as they don’t really look NA made to me. @here4turquoise I just purchased these jet & turquoise earrings made by Mary Calabaza(Kewa). I’m taking baby steps toward getting a jet necklace… 
Those are so pretty! Are they heavy? I would love having some earrings like that, but my right earlobe just doesn’t like anything with any kind of weight much anymore.
We will all help encourage you on your baby steps towards a jet necklace 
@Ziacat Thanks. No, neither pair are heavy at all. Even though the turquoise & jet earrings are 3" in length, you don’t even know you’re wearing earrings. I’m super happy with them!
I just noticed the little copper piece at the top of the Mary Calabaza earrings. I wonder if that’s her mark. So cool.
@Ziacat I had read somewhere that it is.
Great jacla earrings @Patina! And the small copper bead in the jet/turquoise earrings adds a cool “pop”, I like it!
@Ziacat, interesting take on the copper bead. You’re likely correct as it seems that recently many Kewa jewelers are doing so. It would be great to see if other she made have the bead. My older pieces (except for Ray Lovato) do not have any such marker. Of course he added a tab to the neckwrap instead of in the heishi/beads.
And, I’ll add these vintage itty-bitty (Child’s ?) jaclas.
Lita Atencio told me she does this with her necklaces; she usually uses a red bead, but not always in the same spot. She sprinkled 4 throughout the necklace I just purchased.
Amazing collection! Want to adopt me as family?
Gorgeous, @Bmpdvm! Wow, you were really holding out on us before 
. The Ray Lovato Fox necklace is killer (I lust for a three strand by him) and I love all the spiny; it looks particularly great together as a grouping.
I’m of the opinion that it all qualifies as heishe, stone or shell. Although as you said it’s true that “heishe” comes from the Keres word for shell, it has become commonplace (I believe for quite some time among natives and artists as well as non-native collectors) to use it more inclusively to refer to rolled cylindrical stone and shell beads. I think Paula Baxter addresses this in the book you shared above, which I also have. Actually, what I am not sure I would actually consider true heishe is the chamfered beads with slightly rounded edges. I wouldn’t consider native made fully round beads to be heishe (I’ve heard the term “gumball” used), so do the not quite cylindrical, not quite round beads count? I’m not sure, but I love seeing yours nonetheless.
To answer your question, I did not have the jaclas restrung as a necklace myself. Though I love the look of a jacla necklace and may do that with other jaclas in the future. I bought the necklace from the Rainbow Man in Santa Fe and they had had the vintage jaclas restrung with handmade beads by Victoria Anderson.
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Oh these ones are perfect for earrings! It’s actually hard to find good older jaclas that aren’t too big and overwhelming for earrings. Actually of the two sets of earrings I posted, I did buy the ones on the left as jaclas and have them restrung as earrings. I was excited to find the french hooks with the tiny silver buttons that they’re strung on at the Heard museum, which I thought was perfect for them.
I fully agree with your assessment of the chamfered beads. Like you, I love that form, and appreciate the amount of work they require as compared to heishi. I don’t call these heishi, but they seem to fit into this catagory😊
I remembered when I first purchased them years ago I was suprised at the cost until the workmanship was explained to me. I love that Piki and others are now making these gorgeous chamfered edge bead necklaces. I’ll have to spend some time with Paula’s book to see what she states about bead vs heishi.
I thought about making the small jaclas into earrings…you did a great job and have me thinking again. But I’ll probably not be able to find French wires as cool as yours! Who did the conversion for you?
I do’t know where we came down on the differentiation between nugs strung with heishi vs. just straight heishi, for the purposes of this thread, but here we go.
Pretty sure the one on the left is reconstituted material, it looks grainy on some stones, but others look right. I know it was obvs restrung with the commercial silver beads and clasp, but I like it anyway for wearability.
for scale, the 2nd from left is 30" long. the one on the far left isn’t heishi but I seldom wear it so wantd to show it off. the middle one has the coolest lumpy-bubbly nugs! and 2nd from right is a beautiful pale green. the one on the far right is by Joe and Terry Reano, and I wear it often with some Sonoran earrings by Diane Lonjose.
the one on the far left is odd. Pretty sure it’s shell, but not sure what kind. strung on fishing line with a screw clasp. boo. the middle one is prob 35" long and super heavy. not sure if med coral or apple, but the turq nugs are super nice. the one on the right is turq/spondylus/melon heishi (I think).
yeah, ok ok, not technically heishi (at all), but it’s still bitty pretty beads… 
fun to wear stacked - they make a statement!
