Cartier’s New High Jewelry Looks To The Past To Create Its Future
Early Pacific jewelry was manufactured from bone, wood, and different pure materials, and thus has not survived. Most Pacific jewelry is worn above the waist, with headdresses, necklaces, hair pins, and arm and waist belts being the most common items. Jadeite funerary jewellery from Tomb 1 of Structure VII of Calakmul, thought to belong to Yuknoom Tookʼ Kʼawiil. Late Classic .Among the Late Post-Classic Aztecs, only nobility wore gold jewellery, because it showed their rank, power, and wealth.
Victorious army heroes have been honoured by rewards of diamonds and now have been used as ransom cost for release from imprisonment …