This beautiful necklace is made from hand painted hand carved bone beads. There are Dragonflies and ferns. Great for those Dragonfly collectors.
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Bone carving has been around forever.

One of the most important technological developments of the Shang was the invention of writing. Known as the The Oracle Script with over 3000 characters, was the first known written form of communication. The most common place these writings are found is on oracle bones used for divine purposes. The bones used for this purpose originally came from a number of animals, but were eventually done exclusively on tortoise shells. The diviner would pose a question was written on the polished bone, which was then fired and a T shaped crack was produced which was interpreted, and the interpretation was then written on the bone. After the predicted event occurred, the date of the occurrence was also written on the bone, becoming historical documents of that time