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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 warring expeditions. ...

the manifestation of a Siane creation myth and celestial symbol. The diamond-shaped ... the most important and powerful men in the group, who had multiple wives ... worn at Pig Festivals to honor the power of pigs, and the figure itself ...

of the hilt). An S-shaped knuckle-bow (finger guard) with a pendant bud terminal ... disk. The grip is baluster vase-shaped with chamfered faces surmounted ... pieces shaped like flower heads with two smaller leaves. Turquoise ...

in teardrop-shaped feet, with the cord still in place around two ... and standardized in size and shape. This design was made well into the twentieth ... that strictly ranks the various powers of each social group, culminating ...

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 ...

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 ... power) would be lost. The tattoo artist also was denied touching food ...

of a winged lion crushing an elephant between its forepaws. The all-powerful ... fashioned in the shape of an antelope and decorated with lively hunting scenes ...

bone-like shapes, the suspended interlocking curves and pendular oval can turn ... Expressionism, for its rough, hand-worked surfaces and powerful contours.<br> ...

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 ...

dancing figure is another form of the traditionally cone-shaped Sulka dance ... They were believed to bring dignity and ancestral spirit power to the wearer, ...

crevices, and irregularly shaped concretions. On the right, wiry lines merge ... in formal terms and in their power and refinement. About The Era:  Historical ...

shaped by the development of photographic portraiture. With its plain ... and expanding middle class began to demonstrate its wealth and power, a fervent ...

and a tiered circular foot. There are two opposing S-shaped handles in the form ... Power: Three Schools of Indian Silver</em>. London: Indar Pasricha ...

colors and simplified, graphic shapes – demonstrates the merging ... ubiquitous on buttons and posters. As a testament to the power of García’s ...

negative space defines form, how lines in space may suggest human shapes. His ... realization of Smith's elegant and powerful geometry. <i>Cubi XXIII ...

and boxes conceived as irregular shapes that fit together. Moreover, ... power. By 1920 more than half of the country’s population lived in urban ...

are read as flat shapes in a jigsaw-puzzle arrangement. As Sunlit Houses ... into a modern industrialized society and an international political power. By 1920 ...

non-objective paintings, “The power of his work emanates from his understanding ... geometric-shapes. Projection, No. 3, is one of his earliest, largest and finest ...

marble Hiram Powers (1805-1873) and other neoclassical sculptors insisted ... in correct shape." The sculptor saw the girls socially on several ... and power, a fervent nationalist spirit was celebrated in the writings of Walt ...

shapes surround the central sunburst medallion, and a pair of mosque lamps ... of the great medallion is a roundel shaped like a geometrical pool of the kind ... and fertility of the garden, the most powerful symbol of physical and spiritual ...