Amethyst Ontario's Natural Beauty & Thunder Bay's Treasure
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Large Selection of Local Amethyst
Including Jewelry, Inukshuks, pen sets, clocks, trees ,candle holders and rocks with detailed pewter animals each piece is highly unique. Many pieces can have an engraved plate applied creating a truly one of a kind gift! Each piece of amethyst comes with a beautiful full color pamphlet with the information contained below.Natural amethyst, a variety of quartz, ranges in colour from very pale violet to dark purple, sometimes coated with a reddish brown film of hematite. The colour is caused by iron ion replacing silicon ions in quartz; the iron is then ionized with low level natural radiation from the surrounding rocks. These six sided purple crystals are found in thin sheet like intrusions in crevices called veins and in vugs - pockets within rock where trapped liquids and gases have created an environment suitable for crystal formation.
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Amethyst Inukshuks
The meaning of inuk is "person" and suk "substitute." A loose definition of inukshuk would be: something that symbolizes or performs the function of a human. The widely recognized innunguaq, in fact, represents a human figure and in some of these, the Inuit stuffed Arctic heather to resemble human hair.
Why Were Inukshuks Built?
Inukshuks served different functions. An inukshuk with an open leg might have pointed to a navigable marine channel; an inukshuk with an open arm or designed with one longer arm may have suggested a directional route; an inukshuk perched on a shoreline could have indicated good fishing nearby.
Inukshuks served different functions. An inukshuk with an open leg might have pointed to a navigable marine channel; an inukshuk with an open arm or designed with one longer arm may have suggested a directional route; an inukshuk perched on a shoreline could have indicated good fishing nearby.
•An interesting aspect of inuksuit is that some were built with a peephole in the middle, which would reveal another inukshuk in the distance.This may have proved invaluable for pointing forward on a trail to be followed.
•Hunters hid behind larger inuksuit to hunt caribou.
•An Inukshuk could mark a cache of food.
•An inukshuk built on top of a hill served to mark the territory of an Inuit family group.
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