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  2. Hanfu accessories - Wikipedia

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    Some jade pendants also combined jades in the shape of dragons, phoenixes, humans, human-dragons, and animals, etc. [20] [21] [22] In the Qing dynasty, it was popular for women to wear green, translucent jade jewelries; pendants which were carved in the shape of a curving dragon was popular.

  3. Tang dynasty tomb figures - Wikipedia

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    The women are tall and slim, whereas by the mid-8th century a plumper figure had become the norm, with faces that are "fat, heavily brooding and vacuous". [44] It has been suggested that this change in taste was provoked by the famous imperial concubine Yang Guifei , who had a full figure, although it seems to begin by about 725, [ 45 ] when ...

  4. Jewellery - Wikipedia

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    In Assyria, men and women both wore extensive amounts of jewellery, including amulets, ankle bracelets, heavy multi-strand necklaces, and cylinder seals. [ 39 ] Jewellery in Mesopotamia tended to be manufactured from thin metal leaf and was set with large numbers of brightly coloured stones (chiefly agate, lapis, carnelian, and jasper).

  5. Gravettian - Wikipedia

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    The male height of the Gravettian culture ranged between 179 and 188 centimetres (5 ft 10 in and 6 ft 2 in) tall with an average of 183.5 centimetres (6 ft 0.2 in), which is exceptionally tall not only for that period of prehistory, but for all periods of history. [21] [22]

  6. Venus figurine - Wikipedia

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    Such figurines were carved from soft stone (such as steatite, calcite or limestone), bone or ivory, or formed of clay and fired. The latter are among the oldest ceramics known to historians. In total, over 200 such figurines are known; [2] virtually all of modest size, between about 3 and 40 cm (1.2 and 15.7 in) in height. [3]

  7. Mississippian stone statuary - Wikipedia

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    A 17.5 centimeters (6.9 in) in height figurine that depicts a kneeling upright male figure who grasps a cylindrical object thought to be a rolled up sacred medicine bundle in his right hand and connected by the base there is a freestanding ceramic vessel placed in front of him. It is the only Cahokian flint clay figurine with such a detached ...

  8. Hopi Kachina figure - Wikipedia

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    Katsina tihu (Kokopol), probably late 19th century, Brooklyn Museum Hopi katsina figures (Hopi language: tithu or katsintithu), also known as kachina dolls, are figures carved, typically from cottonwood root, by Hopi people to instruct young girls and new brides about katsinas or katsinam, the immortal beings that bring rain, control other aspects of the natural world and society, and act as ...

  9. Chinese jade - Wikipedia

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    There is a suggestion of curvilinear anthropomorphic images. [13] A distinctive carving technique was used to create the fine raised relief of the anthropomorphic images. [13] The fourth known jade centre is known as the Hongshan culture (c. 3800 – c. 2700 BC). [13] The centre was situated in along the modern northeastern border of China. [13]

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