Personal adornment, uniting humans across time is the subject of the book Adornment, written by Professor Stephen Davies from the University of Auckland's Faculty of Arts.
Young Kayan Lahwi woman from Myanmar with neck coils, 2009. Photo Dennis Jarvis
Men from Nabire, Papua, Indonesia, 2011
Credit: Photo Rachel Halder.
Door, Agung Rai Museum of Art, nr Ubud, Bali, Indonesia, 2018.
Credit: Photo Stephen Davies.
Buddha statue, grounds of Agung Rai Museum of Art, nr Ubud, Bali, Indonesia, 2018.
Credit: Photo Stephen Davies.
Offering (canang sari), near Ubud, Bali, Indonesia, 2019. Photo Rucina Ballinger.
Indian bridal henna.
Credit: Henna artist and photo Darcy Vasudev of Henna Lounge.
Traditional Samoan man's pe'a.
Credit: Photo by CloudSurfer. Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0).
Louis XIV, King of France, 1701 portrait by Hyacinthe Rigaud.
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