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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 6915771, member: 5833&quot;]As the proprietor of a couple of turtles, I naturally have all sorts of other turtles that do not require the bathtub, &amp; as a former collector of Zuni fetishes, a large proportion of those are NA.&nbsp; I spent some time looking at them to see if there was any consistent way the shells &amp; feet are rendered.&nbsp; There is not.&nbsp; Although most of mine have have more defined legs, some are sketchy like these.&nbsp; The scutes of the shells are executed in a variety of ways, none of mine quite like this.</p><p><br /></p><p>There are really 2 questions here: were the turtle beads carved by a NA hand: was the person who strung it all together NA?&nbsp; Answer to first is maybe.&nbsp; However, the Chinese also turn out stuff like this, which gets sold at the big Southwest rock &amp; mineral shows, &amp; is sometimes purchased by NA buyers.&nbsp; I have a gut feeling only when it comes to the second question.&nbsp; This looks more like a non-NA hobbyist piece to me; I cannot specify why, although the sea urchin spines &amp; lobster claw clasp both seem &#039;wrong&#039; to me.&nbsp; It is obviously NA/SW influenced, but I don&#039;t think you can claim much more than that for it.</p><p><br /></p><p>BTW, in pix the pea sized beads also look like jasper.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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