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Jared is working on content for the upcoming new site today, and in particular, photographs and text for the materials encyclopedia and antiquities museum. We thought we’d share this photo of most of the body adornment antiques laid out after having just been unpacked from the move. These will be on permanent display in the Onetribe body jewelry museum and showroom within the next month or so. We use these items to educate our customers and the public about the rich history of body modification, and we also use them as research tools and inspiration in our own work.

About the bottom half is Mesoamerican and consists of greenstone, aventurine and jadeite ear flares in various sizes, shell and ceramic ear flares and jade, greenstone and ceramic sculpture, beads/strands and pendants and lip plugs in quartz, jet, ivory (that one’s North American) and obsidian. The upper half is primarily Asia, Southeast Asia and Oceania and consists of mostly metals, wood and bone. Silver, mixed white metal and brass earrings and flares from India, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Java, Sumatra, Borneo, African lip plates in ceramic, wood and aluminum and some various huge septum pieces in shell and bone from Papua.