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About the artist: Sue Cliff is an enrolled member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa located in North Dakota. Her Metis lineage is interwoven with Chippewa, Cree, Nakoda, and French. It is the artist's intention to create each dentalium jewelry item to highlight aspects of the symbols, colors, and art form(s) utilized by her Indigenous ancestors. Sue Cliff uses dentalium, abalone, freshwater pearl, seed beads and other art components to create theme-based jewelry of the buffalo, horse, thunderbird, turtle, dragonfly, and other symbols.