Usually women are the ones responsible for making the beadwork. When women are making jewelry there are certain things they must take into account. There are colors you cannot put together-you cannot put white next to yellow, nor red next to orange. If it happen, you have to put a divider of about two strands of beads, blue beads to divide the white and yellow. Colors have meanings: red is danger, white represents milk from our livestock, blue means sky. A lot of jewelry is in circular form because we believe the universe is in a circular form.

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