44-1231. Definitions

In this article, unless the context otherwise requires:

1. " Authentic Indian arts and crafts" means any product which is Indian handcrafted and is not made by machine or from unnatural materials, except stabilized or treated turquoise.

2. " Findings" means an ingredient part of the product which adapts the product for wearing or display, including silver beads, leather backing, binding material, bolo tie clips, tie bar clips, tie tack pins, earring pins, earring clips, earring screw backs, cuff link toggles, money clips, pin stems, combs or chains.

3. " Indian" means a person who is enrolled or who is a lineal descendant of one enrolled upon an enrollment listing of the bureau of Indian affairs, or upon the enrollment listing of a recognized Indian tribe domiciled within the United States border.

4. " Indian handcrafted" means the skillful and expert use of the hands in making products solely by Indians within the United States, including the use of findings, hand tools and equipment for buffing, polishing, grinding, drilling or sewing.

5. " Made by machine" means the producing or reproducing of a product in mass production by mechanically stamping, casting, blanking or weaving.

6. " Natural turquoise" means turquoise, exclusive of any backing material, whose composition has not been chemically or otherwise altered.

7. " Nonauthentic Indian arts and crafts" means any product which is made to imitate or resemble authentic Indian arts and crafts and which is either:

(a) Not Indian handcrafted.

(b) Made by machine or from unnatural materials, except stabilized or treated turquoise.

8. " Reconstituted turquoise" means dust and turquoise particles which are mixed with plastic resins and are compressed into a solid form so as to resemble natural turquoise.

9. " Stabilized turquoise" means turquoise which has been chemically hardened, but not adulterated so as to change the color of the natural mineral.

10. " Synthetic turquoise" means any compound or mineral which is manufactured or treated so as to closely approximate turquoise in appearance.

11. " Treated turquoise" means turquoise which has been altered to produce a change in the coloration of the natural mineral.

12. " Turquoise" means a hydrous copper sulphate, containing aluminum salts, plus iron.

13. " Unnatural turquoise" means any substance which is not natural turquoise, including stabilized turquoise, treated turquoise, reconstituted turquoise or synthetic turquoise.