Guinea Bissau Turquoise Bridal Fashion Bangle Necklace Ankle Bracelet Gold Jewellery 55

Guinea Bissau Turquoise Bridal Fashion Bangle Necklace Ankle Bracelet Gold Jewellery. 

 By Aamir Mannan.
A selection of Ancestral Puebloan (Anasazi) turquoise and orange argillite inlay pieces from Chaco Canyon (dated ca. 1020–1140 CE) show the typical colour range and mottling of American turquoise. Some likely came from Cerrillos -- see next photo.
United States

A fine Turquoise specimen from Los Cerrillos, New Mexico at the Smithsonian. Cerrillos turquoise was widely used by Native Americans prior to the Spanish conquest.

Bisbee turquoise commonly has a hard chocolate brown coloured matrix.