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(An Analysis Of) Jewelry Making And Language, Lee Whitley
(An Analysis Of) Jewelry Making And Language, Lee Whitley
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The purpose of this paper was to clarify the significance of jewelry by showing it to be like a language, both in past history and today. Jewelry is divided into two general divisions, that mass produced industrially at a relatively low cost and that individually-produced by craftsmen at considerable expense. It was not the intention of this paper to separate the two, merely to explore the language of jewelry through the medium of symbols.A