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- Dentalium_shell abstract "The word dentalium or dentalia (plural), as commonly used by Native American artists and anthropologists, refers to tooth shells or tusk shells used in indigenous jewelry, adornment, and commerce in western Canada and the United States. These tusk shells are a kind of seashell, specifically the shells of scaphopod mollusks. The name "dentalium" is based on the scientific name for the genus Dentalium, but because the taxonomy has changed over time, not all of the species used are still placed in that genus; however, all of the species are certainly in the family Dentaliidae.The use of these shells by Inuit, First Nations, and Native Americans is well known. This usage is found along the western coast of Canada and along the Pacific Ocean coast of the northwest United States extending southward to Southern California. Traditionally, the shells of Antalis pretiosum (previously known as Dentalium pretiosum, the precious dentalium (a species which occurs from Alaska to Baja California) were harvested off the coast of Vancouver Island; however, today most dentalium shells for sale in the shell trade are smaller, more brittle, and are harvested from coasts off Asia — i.e. they are shells of Indo-Pacific species of scaphopods.Dentalium shells were historically harvested from deep waters around the Pacific Northwest coast of North America, because they were highly valued by First Nations peoples as an international trade item. Alfred Kroeber wrote of the Native Californians' perception of the shell: "Since the direction of these sources is 'downstream' to them, they speak in their traditions of the shells living at the downstream and upstream ends of the world, where strange but enviable peoples live who suck the flesh of univalves."".
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- Dentalium_shell hasPhotoCollection Dentalium_shell.
- Dentalium_shell subject Category:Beadwork.
- Dentalium_shell subject Category:Cultural_anthropology.
- Dentalium_shell subject Category:Northwest_Coast_art.
- Dentalium_shell subject Category:Seashells_in_art.
- Dentalium_shell type Covering109257949.
- Dentalium_shell type NaturalObject100019128.
- Dentalium_shell type Object100002684.
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- Dentalium_shell type Seashell101956764.
- Dentalium_shell type SeashellsInArt.
- Dentalium_shell type Shell101904182.
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- Dentalium_shell comment "The word dentalium or dentalia (plural), as commonly used by Native American artists and anthropologists, refers to tooth shells or tusk shells used in indigenous jewelry, adornment, and commerce in western Canada and the United States. These tusk shells are a kind of seashell, specifically the shells of scaphopod mollusks.".
- Dentalium_shell label "Dentalium shell".
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- Dentalium_shell wasDerivedFrom Dentalium_shell?oldid=604560435.
- Dentalium_shell depiction NEPE2194_Necklace.jpg.
- Dentalium_shell isPrimaryTopicOf Dentalium_shell.
