Text: Italienisch. - "One of the finest collections of ethnic jewellery with photographs made especially for this book, accompanied by a text by art historian France Borel. The 400 colorplates show pieces from every continent made from a vast array of materials: gold, silver, bronze, and iron; precious and semiprecious stones; bones, teeth, and feathers; shell, wood, leather, glass, seeds and fiber plants, and clay. Colette Ghysels has written detailed captions. - A fine copy.
