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Picasso marble was formed during prehistoric times when lava mixed with limestone. The colors and blustery patterning are from magma being forced through fractures in the limestone, coloring the stone with gray or tan streaks and black lines. It is an astonishing combination of intertwining blacks, browns, and tans that looks much like the famous paintings of Pablo Picasso. Picasso marble can fluctuate from specimens exhibiting fairly harmonized colors of beige to brown or highly dramatic specimens that have black, grey and brown with bold veins of other colors. Some rarer specimens even have greens in them. Picasso Marble is a rock native to Beaver, Utah. The Gulf of Mexico used to reach to Southern Utah. The shells from tiny sea animals turn into limestone and were covered by lava which filled the seams and cracks in the host stone. This created the colors in the rock. Some colors are pink, yellow, and brown, which contrast with other colors, such as black, brown, white, and grey. Bennie created this bruin in a standing posture and he is gazing up at the heavens perhaps looking for the Big Dipper? The eyes and necklace are inlaid of Sleeping Beauty turquoise and the fetish is signed Bacy in cursive on the bottom as is his usual manner. It was purchased originally from Shadowlands in 2001.
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Zuni Fetish Meanings
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