A cow decorated with charms, colorful ropes and beads is seen as the local cattle breeders who prepared sash, loincloth and their local clothes known as “bush vest” before coming to plateau, their animals in Trabzon, Turkiye on September 24, 2023. (Photo by Hakan Burak Altunoz/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Dogs and their owners wearing all types of colorful costumes participate in the Elizabeth Street Garden Halloween Pet Parade on November 4, 2023 in New York City. The parade was posponed from October dur to bad weather. (Photo by Andrew Schwartz/Splash News and Pictures)

People celebrate Nowruz, considered as the harbinger of spring, awakening of nature and brotherhood, with traditional costumes and at Gobustan National Park in Baku, Azerbaijan on March 21, 2022. People from different regions of Azerbaijan attended celebration with colorful dresses and various music groups performed. (Photo by Resul Rehimov/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Girls of the Long Horn Miao ethnic minority group wear headdresses as they prepare gather for Tiaohua or Flower Festival as part of the Lunar New Year on February 6, 2017 in Longga village, Guizhou province, southern China. (Photo by Kevin Frayer/Getty Images)

Miles Van Rensselaer using everything from glass and crystal to bronze and iron, from gold and silver to tooth and bone, from steel, copper and lead to wood, clay, feather and hair. He has been fortunate enough to work – and humbled by working – with and among talented artists from all over the world. His work is his homage to these people and their vanishing ways of life, his translation of their technique, imagery, idea of “primitive” art into modern Western materials.