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| | Body Art: Marks of Identity | American Museum of Natural History |
 | | In Origins, visitors will have the opportunity to learn about the earliest uses of body art through archeological sculptures and ornaments, including those from Egypt and Greece, as well as objects from ancient Peru, Ecuador, Mexico, and Costa Rica, dating back as early at 3000 BC. |
 | | If the impulse to create art is a defining sign of humanity, the body may well have been the first canvas. |
 | | In the past, as today, body art may have been a way of communicating ideas about the afterlife and about the place of the individual in the universe. |
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