Jewelry of Naiparku

Naiparkuans manuacture jewelry using a combination of various natural resources and native or imported minerals and gemstones. Cobalt blue is a prominently featured pigment and color in Naiparkuan jewelry. There are overall three major types of jewelry:


 * Tikėboakar ("burnt gluing", from tikė "glue" + -ba "to apply/make use of" + -o "patient of..." + aka "to burn" + -r "action of..."): enamelled glass beads
 * Chinan (from chin "around" + -an "instrument of..."): gold- or silver-based metalwork in shapes of a cage or a frame, which are often incrusted with:
 * Gemstones (irivosik, from iri "to be rare" + vosa "to protect" + -ik "agent of")
 * Amber (hwari)
 * Shells (''werenebu, "underwater ears")
 * Corals (''givannebu, "underwater branches": pillar coral, staghorn coral; werenebu: small fan-like coral; other types of corals, such as large fan-like coral, brain coral, table coral, etc., are not usually used in jewelry)
 * Tikėbomiron ("raw gluing", from tikėbo "gluing" + miro "be raw" + -n "having the trait of..."): varnished wood/gemstone/shell/corals: resins from three plants (gosomibo "milky-white tear", gosoravwer "bitter tear", and akora) and one insect (nekhuse "tree feces") and oil from the second most important oil crop are used.