Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 202, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 August 1919 — Jewelry Reveals History. [ARTICLE]

Jewelry Reveals History.

Increasing demand for all-American jewelry, designed from ancient models fashioned by the Aztecs and Toltecs of Mexico, has brought to light a striking similarity between them and those of the contemporaneous Roman empire. The characteristic features of Roman jewelry wire its broad surfaces, massive construction, use of large stones and open-work ornament. The same features are equally true of the aboriginal American jewelry, and cf that of the restoration now in vogue. Betokening strength ahd luxury, they both differed radically from the jewelry of the Greeks and Etruscans, especially In that the latter was chiefly distinguished by its delicate beauty and minutely cunning workmanship. Comparatively, it is the difference between the Imposing canvas and the miniature. Montezuma and the Aztec nobles —and their Toltec predecessors —wore this magnificent, colorful jewelry, and so did the emperors and noblesof Rome, while both great empires were flourishing at the same period.