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represented locally specific styles in shape and carving technique, but all were similarly simple. It was ... believed that wood sculpture and carving had power, and clubs gained additional power through successful ... weapon gained prestige and power. This weapon also could have had a ceremonial use, meant for display by ...

(tongue-like stabilizing projection at the mouth of the hilt). An S-shaped knuckle-bow (finger guard) with ... grip is baluster vase-shaped with chamfered faces surmounted by a plain roll border and rows of ... the form of two larger pieces shaped like flower heads with two smaller leaves. Turquoise was revered ...

that end in teardrop-shaped feet, with the cord still in place around two legs.</p><p>This ... standardized in size and shape. This design was made well into the twentieth century and presumably was made on ... common in Polynesia that strictly ranks the various powers of each social group, culminating in the ...

emery, or corundum. The rough blocks were shaped and polished into the required decorative form using the ... traditional South Asian method of a bow-powered lathe with rotating spindles fitted with various grinding ... plates for shaping and polishing, cutting wheels for carving designs, and diamond-tipped metal bores for ...

Label</b><br>This unique carved Maori feeding funnel is not the typical conical shape of other funnels but rather ... a bowl shape with a troughlike spout. The entire surface is carved with asymmetrical designs. The feeding ... <i>tapu</i> (taboo) barrier was broken, and the <i>mana</i> (ancestral chiefly power) would be ...

diamond-shaped body represents the moon, the round head, the sun, and the bent limbs, the road between them. The ... important and powerful men in the group, who had multiple wives and large collections of pigs, symbols of ... their wealth. The headdresses were worn at Pig Festivals to honor the power of pigs, and the figure ...

Label</b><br>This dancing figure is another form of the traditionally cone-shaped Sulka dance headdress. The ... and ancestral spirit power to the wearer, because the figure was seen as a temporary resting place for ...

appears alive, its slow movement causing ripples, crevices, and irregularly shaped concretions. On the ... paintings similar in formal terms and in their power and refinement. About The Era:  Historical Commentary:  ...

crushing an elephant between its forepaws. The all-powerful dominance of the leonine creature is expressed ... primer flasks fashioned in the shape of an antelope and decorated with lively hunting scenes are ...

shapes, the suspended interlocking curves and pendular oval can turn slowly within the outer arch. ... Expressionism, for its rough, hand-worked surfaces and powerful contours.<br> <br> Wall label, 2021. ...

miniature octagonal Qur'ans, often preserved in silver cases such as this, carried powerful meanings to ... their users as amulets. They are similar in shape to other talismanic pendants and could be worn around ...

how lines in space may suggest human shapes. His final and most celebrated series, ... <i>Cubi</i>, is the mature realization of Smith's elegant and powerful geometry. <i>Cubi XXIII ...

some extent shaped by the development of photographic portraiture. With its plain background setting ... demonstrate its wealth and power, a fervent nationalist spirit was celebrated in the writings of Walt Whitman ...

a professor at the University of New Mexico, explained Bisttram’s non-objective paintings, “The power of his ... well as the detailed structure of tiny geometric-shapes. Projection, No. 3, is one of his earliest, ...

two opposing S-shaped handles in the form of a scaled serpent. The vessel’s decoration consists ... Commentary:  Handbook:  Label:  Bibliographic Entry:  Wilkinson, Wynyard R. T. <em>Reflecting Power ...

shapes – demonstrates the merging of these interests.　 Libertad Para Los Prisoneros Políticas! ... a testament to the power of García’s depiction of Davis, the image was reproduced for further distribution by ...

seems largely abstract, but individual motifs have figural sources. Sixteen ogival shapes surround the ... buds. At the center of the great medallion is a roundel shaped like a geometrical pool of the kind that ... appropriate for a work of art that recalls the abundance and fertility of the garden, the most powerful symbol ...

segmented groupings, the stage, orchestra, balcony, and boxes conceived as irregular shapes that fit ... international political power. By 1920 more than half of the country’s population lived in urban areas. Seeming ...

shapes in a jigsaw-puzzle arrangement. As Sunlit Houses is a view of a town, it foreshadows Grabach’s ... society and an international political power. By 1920 more than half of the country’s population lived in ...

thereby emphasizing the painting as an arrangement of flat shapes and patterns. Frieseke differed from ... society and an international political power. By 1920 more than half of the country’s population lived in ...