Sentences with phrase «of animal pelts»

Woman in the Ashes is the sort of novel in which fish fly through the air, the soil bears the footprints of angels, and a bundle of animal pelts hides a deep abyss.

Wangechi Mutu turns an especially long wall into a three - dimensional lunar landscape, with duct tape for rills and bits of animal pelt for stars.

Not exact matches

Since badger hair used in shaving brushes is harvested from various parts of the animal's pelt, the hair itself displays characteristic differences depending on precisely where on the animal the hair is procured.

Fur - trapping is a specific kind of consumptive trapping in that the primary goal is to capture animals considered valuable for their pelt rather than for their meat or to resolve a predation issue.

At the end of that first meal, a server asked if we'd like to have a hot cocktail on the large outdoor patio, where there are a few benches draped in animal pelts, arranged around a roaring fireplace.

Finish the look by toting around an animal pelt or, perhaps, a plush owl (bonus points if it is a Western screech owl, one of Kennicott's scientific namesakes).

The group adds that the animals are killed in very inhumane ways — such as by electrocution, gassing or poisoning — to preserve the quality of the pelts above all else.

According to IFTF data, the vast majority of the fur industry's pelts — upwards of 85 percent — now come from farm - raised animals.

Glass, a poaching authority and power behind Captain Andrew Henry's (Domhnall Gleeson, «Ex Machina») captainship over a party of poachers pelting pelts from animals in the wild lands of a recently purchased Louisiana, is one of the few survivors of an ambush led by the Arikara people, whose chief is desperate to find his abducted daughter.

These include threats from animals, weapon - brandishing bad - guys and a nasty villain (Van Pelt played by Bobby Cannavale) who is crawling with large insects (they even slither into his ear and out of his mouth).

Story missions (many of which take place in areas outside the main world) aren't available in co-op, but you'll still get to assassinate base commanders, gather herbs for healing syringes, hunt animals for their pelts, nuke propaganda centres and topple walled fortresses.

Van Pelt, played by Bobby Cannavale, is not a very convincing bad guy, the threat of the animals lurking in the jungle is more villainous than he is.

There is an unsparingly tough scene in which Gheorghe skins a dead lamb so that the pelt can be laid upon another one so that the dead animal's mother will give it milk: a classic piece of country lore, unselfconsciously presented.

After lots of wine, some spontaneous dancing, and another outfit change for Rudi into a bizarre animal - skin pelt, something is unmistakable.

More galling is the utterly absurd irrelevance of this focus on fur: The industry produces 55 - 60 million pelts a year — a rounding error vs. the billion animals that produce leather each year, and the tens of billions (seriously, check it) of animals slaughtered each year for food.

Please look into this, so many people get these large animals without realizing the amount of care they need or how large they get and end up giving them to places where if they can't find a zoo for it, the animal is sold for its pelt.

«Fur» or «coat» is usually used in reference to mammalian haircoats but we also use «pelt» for the complete hair and skin of an animal.

Fur - covered figurines may contain the pieces of pelts of several animals, or may just be the pelt of one unlucky victim.

The same can be said of the Far Cry games, wild animals prowling the landscape, their pelts calling you to the hunt and their very presence giving the world a greater impression of life.

Players may set out intent on taking part in a story mission, but on their way to a checkpoint they'll invariably run across a radar tower or an enemy - held outpost or even a herd of animals whose pelts they need to unlock a weapon slot and all of a sudden, their original motivation goes flying out the window.

Because each is so large and is made by sewing one sheet of canvas onto another and then stretching it, they have the physical presence of carpets, teepee covers, or animal pelts drawn tight for curing.

Portrayed communing with a wolf, taking shelter with its pelt, and being born from its womb, Smith's character of Genevieve embodies the complex, symbolic relationships between humans and animals.

Facing this grotesque ensemble, a sculptural panel made from various animal pelts stands as a sort of morbid trophy.

Surridge's work also often incorporates elements of animal and botanical origin, such as pelts, bones or animals which she preserves or taxidermies herself.

These are hand - sewn rugs made from the pelts of stuffed toy animals.

They also challenged the claim that «Reduced CO2 gas emissions; No transportation needed, fur animals are born, raised and die on the farm» was misleading because it did not take into account other transportation factors such as delivering food to the farm and the transportation of pelts.

«The fur coat animals force the realization that the pelts were once the skins of living animals, and thus provoke consideration of the public's celebration and simultaneous exploitation of the captive creatures.

The children wandered through the longhouse, stroking the pelts and hides of the various animals that were integral to the Huron's subsistence.

In the early years of Canada's settlement by Europeans, the voyageurs spent months, sometimes years, traversing vast distances of wilderness to buy animal pelts from distant Native trading posts.

European demand for otter pelts decimated the animal population in that area and pushed Kyuquot and Checleseht peoples out of their wintering villages.