Colors of Jewelry Materials

Colors of Jewelry Materials

The following is a general list of some of the natural and ethnic body jewelry that we have available.

Hue and saturation within each color category will vary widely by material, and many of the materials may have a range of several hues within a category, or may overlap into several color categories.

::Gold:: Indian gold, pre-columbian gold septums, vermeil Hmong omegas, areas of gold sheen obsidian

::Copper/Bronze:: bronze fox and other earweights, light C-shaped earweights, Maasai men's copper earweights, ancient Cambodian weights, Turkana labrets, tiger's eye, tiger's iron, goldstone

::Brown/Tan:: mammoth ivory, tan or "black" bamboo, Aztec clay plugs, Alaskan fossilized walrus ivory labrets, some light colored horn, porcupine quills, various hardwoods (granadillo, maple, olivewood, chechen, boxwood stash box cylinders), warthog tusks, mahogany obsidian, dinosaur bone, petrified wood, tiger's eye, tiger's iron, some agates, picture jasper, serpentine

::Silver:: many types of silver ethnic and tribal jewelry, Fulani tribe aluminum hoops or septums, amber stash boxes, silver fox and other earweights, light C-shaped earweights, Hmong omegas, hematite, areas of tiger's iron, various iridescent shells used as inlays

::Clear:: clear quartz plugs or labrets, Neolithic African labrets, Naga glass earweights, citrine (with just a hint of yellow), fluorite (with green and purple bands)

::White:: bone, antler, boar and warthog tusks, mammoth ivory, New Guinea coral septum, Naga tribe shell ear ornaments, porcupine quills, python ribs, white quartz, zebrastone (striped with black), white onyx, mother of pearl talons, dentalium shells, howlite (with grey), base color of opal cabochon inlays

::Pink:: rose quartz, some poppy jasper, areas of leopardskin jasper, unakite (green with pink areas), fossilized Indonesian coral (primarily salmon colored)

::Red:: chakte kok wood, agates (Armenian, poppy jasper, red jasper, carnelian), serpentine, cinnabar

::Orange:: amber, some types of agates such as carnelian, rare instances of porcupine quills

::Yellow:: amber, bamboo, Chinese scrimshaw hollow bone cylinders, yellow jasper, some quills

::Green:: jade (British Columbian, Siberian, Happy Camp, and Wyoming), aventurine, greenstone ancient Mezcala plug, amazonite, unakite (green with pink areas), green-gray agates, moss agate, bloodstone (very dark green with tiny red spots), serpentine, Persian turquoise, fluorite (with clear and purple bands)

::Turquoise:: turquoise, minty colored stones, opal cabochon inlays

::Blue:: lapis, sodalite, blue goldstone, blue tiger's eye, sheen on some rainbow obsidian, opal inlays

::Purple:: plum agate, amethyst, dyed jade, fluorite (with clear and green bands)

::Black:: water buffalo horn, obsidian, black ebony, well-oiled katalox, zebrastone (striped with white), black jade, dyed agates, onyx, and serpentine, snowflake obsidian (with grey spots)

::Gray:: hematite, smoky quartz, some agates, some obsidian, snowflake obsidian (black background)

Please note that obsidian is never blue, transparent gold, or whitish opalescent colored.