A digital archive showcasing the extensive collection of jewellery and adornment images shared on the former Ethnic Jewels Ning site over the years. These images have significantly enriched discussions on cultural adornment and its global dispersion.
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Congratulations on your successful bid on this piece .... I was also trying for it but I am very happy to see that it has found a home with someone who will appreciate it. Superb piece, well done
This is a fabulous piece Bianca. Congratulations! Peter
This is really quite a nice one , a real museum piece
An excellent piece. I am always pleased to see great pieces made to a significant extent of natural materials, which in several places on earth were until recently the only known ones with which to make jewellery. That is why the first two chapters of my wife Truus Daalder's book *Ethnic Jewellery and Adornment*, on Australia and Oceania, show jewellery predominantly made as though in the stone age, using no metals, metallic tools, etc. And the level of artistry achieved - surely, together with the symbolic meanings, the main thing - is often extremely high. This piece uses metal as well, in a most attractive combination.