These "Specimens of Fancy Turning" from a 1869 book of albumen silver prints look like antique, mystical spirograph toy ...

We however thought it no improper measure to take away with us all the lances which we could find about the houses, amounting ...

but also the ancient appreciation of ornamentation, of personal decoration - of pretty things. A question remains over who she was. Other burial goods have been interpreted as domestic trappings ...

The Tumaco-Tolita people, who lived in an area rich in natural gold, crafted intricate and delicate metal objects until the group disappeared 1,500 years ago.

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elegant lines and ornamentation. He is noted for pioneering new industrial techniques that allowed for mass production and the proliferation of glass ornamental objects beyond the bourgeois class.