Author: Borel, France,
Title: Ethnos. Gioielli da terre lontane dalla collezione di Colette e Jeasn-Pierre Ghysels. Fotografie di John Bigelow Taylor.
Description: Milano, Skira, 1996. 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. 294 pages with numerous coloured photographs. 4°, gatefolded cover.

Keywords: Schmuck, Völkerkunde, Volkskunst


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