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JEWELRY |
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Jewelry,
ornaments of precious metal, sometimes set with gems,
worn since ancient times by people of all cultures for
personal adornment, as badges of social or official
rank, and as emblems of religious, social, or political
affiliation.
In its widest sense the term jewelry encompasses objects
made of many kinds of organic and inorganic materials
such as hair, feathers, leather, scales, bones, shells,
wood, ceramics, metals, and minerals. |
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However,
the term properly refers to mounted precious or
semiprecious stones and to objects made of valuable
or attractive metals such as gold, silver, platinum,
copper, and brass. |
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Jewelry has been worn on the head in
the form of crowns, diadems, tiaras, aigrettes, hairpins,
hat ornaments, earrings, nose rings, earplugs, and lip
rings; on the neck in the form of collars,
necklaces, and pendants; on the breast
in the form of pectorals, brooches, clasps, and buttons;
on the limbs in the form of rings,
bracelets, armlets, and ankland at the waist
in the form of belts and girdles, with pendants such
as chatelaines, scent cases, and rosaries.
Current knowledge of ancient jewelry is derived largely
from the preservation of personal objects in tombs.
Information about the jewelry of cultures that did not
bury valuables with the dead comes from portraits in
surviving painting and sculpture etc.. |
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