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The Heart The heart has long been used as a symbol to refer to the spiritual, emotional, moral, and intellectual core of human being. As the heart was once widely believed to be the seat of the human soul, the word heart continues to be used poetically to refer to the soul, and stylized depictio...Heishi (hee-shee), also spelled Heishe, specifically refers to small disc or tube shaped pieces of organic shell or stone which have been ground into beads and strung into necklaces. The word means shell bead in the Keras language spoken by the Santo Domingo Native Americans. The origin of heishi...
