Therefore, many Bracelet styles pay tribute to much earlier designs. We can discern all silver bands without added materials and metal cuffs set with stones in bezels or channels. The latter have also given rise to bracelets inlaid with stones: turquoise, garnet, petrified wood, malachite, and coral are the earliest materials in use.

Fact: When turquoise mines played out and coral became more scarce, Native ingenuity turned to new types of semi-precious stones such as opals and those mined abroad with vivid colors like sugilite and gaspeite.