jewelry

                                    Form and function Jewelry Chen have used jewellery for a number of different reasons: functional, generally to fix clothing or hair in place, or to tell the time (in the case of watches) as a marker of social status and personal status, as with awedding ring as a signifier of some form of affiliation, whether ethnic, religious or social to provide talismanic protection (in the form of amulets) as artistic display as a carrier or symbol of personal meaning - such as love, mourning or luck jewelry chen dancing stone Most cultures at some point have had a practice of keeping large amounts of wealth stored in the form of jewellery. Numerous cultures store wedding dowries in the form of jewellery or make jewellery as a means to store or display coins. Alternatively, jewellery has been used as a currency or trade good; an example being the use of slave beads. ...