In the late twentieth century, the affect of contemporary primitivism led to many of these practices being integrated into western subcultures. Many of those practices depend on a mix of body modification and decorative objects, thus preserving the excellence between these two types of ornament blurred. In North America, Native Americans used shells, wood, turquoise, and soapstone, almost unavailable in South and Central America. The turquoise was utilized Jewelery in necklaces and to be placed in earrings. Native Americans with access to oyster shells, usually located in just one location in America, traded the shells with different tribes, exhibiting the …