Sentences with phrase «carved human bone»
If this appears ghoulish, consider the work of Charles LeDray, who makes exquisite — and very tiny — versions of everyday objects (a chair, a ladder, a shaft of wheat) out of hand - carved human bone.
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Further analysis revealed they were an amalgam of carefully carved and stained human and ape bones.
Artifacts from that period — the obese human and animal figurines and the phallic symbols carved in stone or bone and modeled in clay — point to the idea that the people had an obsession with the living world and its successful propagation through the descent group or lineage.
Recent finds from a site in Russia about 250 miles south of Moscow suggest that the first humans in Europe were Eastern European.The discoveries include bone and carved ivory artifacts.
However, in 1913 and 1914, more finds were made at Piltdown, including a canine tooth intermediate in size between that of apes and humans, and a unique carved artifact made from a large piece of elephant bone that because of its shape became known as the «cricket bat».
One ghoulish item in the exhibit is unforgettable because it looks so commonplace: Charles LeDray's «Untitled / Tower» from 2001, a tiny stack of everyday items, carved from human bones.
From castle turrets carved from bone, to a massive sculpture shaped like a human foot and made of newsprint, Eberle is interested in mankind's need to control the natural order and for disposability, both of which negatively affect the world we live in.
His sculptures range from re-creations of stuffed animals and tailored clothing to tiny ceramic vessels, bound books, and delicate carvings of human bone.