Decoration is usually incised, but molded decoration is also found.
There are decorations, usually paper-chains, handmade by a young, enthusiastic and normally Antipodean, occupational therapist, who persists in trying to get patients away from the TV to come and help her, whilst cheerily sticking a thousand links together single-handed.
Cicatrization, also called Scarification, type of body decoration involving the production of raised scars (keloids), usually in decorative patterns.
Last year, in hopes of avoiding controversy, Mr. Stein took the $250 usually spent on decorations and instead bought a water buffalo for a village in the Philippines through Heifer International.
Geometric decoration, usually incised, is the rule.
A yellow glaze is found in conjunction with incised decoration (usually a dragon) in green.
Made of resilient animal skin and protected by stout wooden boards, they last almost indefinitely, and their decoration usually remains in a remarkably good state of preservation.
Although decoration usually involves an individual's entire body, the main focus is the head, which is adorned with a great variety of hats and wigs.
At the time that Europeans arrived, Australia's Aboriginal people had long-standing traditions in the visual arts, including rock art (painted or carved rocks), bark painting, sand sculpture, wood sculpture, and body decoration (usually painting and scarification).
