| At Zealandia Designs we use all natural materials, combining several elements such as silver, gold, fossilized ivory, semi-precious stones, ammonites, orthoceras, and an assortment of vibrantly colored mother of pearl. The shells and fossils are like human fingerprints, in that no two pieces are the same. Paua shell varies in color from pink and gold to green and blue. Each ammonite is unique. Fossilized walrus tusk can span the neutral tones from creamy white to honey, reddish brown to black, depending on the length of time it was in the ground and the minerals it was in contact with. This ancient ivory is anywhere from 500 to 3,000 years old. It is legally obtained from native owned land, having been excavated by Eskimo families from old village sites on St. Lawrence Island, Alaska. |
