These trends have contributed towards a worldwide interest in traditional Māori culture and humanities. Jewellery played a serious function in the fate of the Americas when the Spanish colonizers have been spurred to search for gold on the American mainland after coming into contact with Caribbean natives that had gold jewellery obtained via trade with the mainland. Continued contact with Native Americans wearing gold jewelry ultimately lead to Spanish expeditions of the mythological El Dorado. René Lalique, working for the Paris store of Samuel Bing, was recognised by contemporaries as a leading figure on this development. The Darmstadt Artists’ Colony…