Sentence examples for a small carving from inspiring English sources

Even a small carving could take up to a week to finish.

The general model throughout the archipelago had tall, upcurved prow and stern posts, which were decorated with rows of shells and, at the waterline of the prow, a small carving (musumusu) of the head and arms of a guardian spirit.

Ms. Ciotti, who has been selling vintage jewelry online for a decade, recommended a smaller, carved resin silhouette from the late 1960s.

Another early work is "Monument for a Dead Marine," a small carved-wood column topped by a screaming animal head that seems to have come out of "Guernica".

Small carved cradles indicated a woman's wish to be blessed with babies.

Small carved heads used as a kind of currency and small heads carved on spear shafts complete the New Caledonian range of figure sculpture.

"If this room is my solo record," he says, picking up a small African carving, "this statue is that one song.

She is called "Venus," and some viewers may recognize her corpulence, posture and headpiece as referring to the Venus of Willendorf, a small stone carving and fertility symbol that is considered to be among the world's oldest surviving sculptures.

A small pelican carved from gray stone by Margo Hammerschlag rounds out the group of weighty sculptures.

Eventually everyone settles into a small room carved out on the stage, filled with a long table topped with candies and cakes.

This is a small theatre carved into the rock at the mouth of a cave facing out over an uncovered area just large enough for a small temporary scene building and stage.