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At the unveiling, Shaginoff wore a fire bag she’d made and decorated with dentalium shells.

Dentalium, a tusk shell often used in Indigenous jewelry, caught her eye in particular.

“I love it, because back in the day, our Cheyenne women wore a lot of dentalium,” she said.

In July, she dropped her first collection of beadwork on Instagram; it included a set of earrings layered with two-tiers of dentalium shells and Swarovski crystals, and another pair with blooming flowers stitched with beads onto moose hide.

A young Native woman smiles softly, wearing a teal T-shirt paired with dentalium earrings.