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.
Personal adornment is a common uniting factor across humans and cultures throughout time. It is also the subject of a new book Adornment, written by Philosophy Professor Stephen Davies from the University of Auckland. We hear about adornment practices in African, Australasian and North and South American indigenous cultures, as well as the Māori moko and the practice of tattooing in Asia and the Pacific.
