Jewellery making within the Pacific began later than in other areas due to recent human settlement. Early Pacific jewellery was manufactured from bone, wooden, and other natural materials, and thus has not survived. Most Pacific jewellery is worn above the waist, with headdresses, necklaces, hair pins, and arm and waist belts being the most common pieces. Continued contact with Native Americans wearing gold jewelry eventually lead to Spanish expeditions of the mythological El Dorado. In Northern America, Native Americans used shells, wooden, turquoise, and soapstone The turquoise was used in necklaces and to be placed in earrings. The turquoise integrated …