[Jewelry making - Article 00809] - Re: [Orchid] Initial impulses for self adornment

[Lee Einer]

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    Conspicuous consumption of wealth is only one reason for adornment,
    and one that has more significance in a culture with a class system,
    a currency, etc. 

    Other reasons for adornment are, simple aesthetic pleasure, magical
    or talismanic, totemic, emblems of clan or social status apart from
    wealth, as well as a display of artistic taste. I am sure others can
    enumerate reasons for jewelry and adornment which I have missed. 

    For more fun, google neanderthal jewelry. Apparently, jewelry is not
    only very old, it is older than homo sapiens. 

Lee Einer
Dos Manos Jewelry
http://www.dosmanosjewelry.com


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