Other Essentials: Class of Jewellery & Hollowware, Academy of Fine Art Munich

The question if jewellery must be considered an essential for human beings, might lead to contradictive answers, which all arguable are true. For the bare survival of a person, along with food, drink and shelter the answer would be no, but for the survival of humankind, as cultural beings and members of societies, jewellery must be considered an essential mean of communication.