Garma's work concerns the origins and symbolic meaning of personal adornments and architectural and sculptural ornamentation. Clothing, amulets, and the products of weaving in general he believes derived from the effort to cover the female genital, being symbolically equivalent to public hair. Both clothing and tattooing also arise from the use of skins to clothe the newborn as foetal membranes clothe him in the womb. Ornament, like neurotic symptoms, can tell us much about the past life of the individual and the race. Every group of people has its characteristic ornament, in which we can detect repressed wishes, elaborations by the