Sentence examples for ancestral figures from inspiring English sources

These planks loom over us like ancestral figures and line the walls like sculptural guardians.

The gates were massive planks, carved above the entrance with major ancestral figures.

The palisades incorporated posts with further ancestral figures, often much bigger than life-size.

Javier Dzul and Miriam Barbosa were stylized ancestral figures in Mr. Dzul's "Y'Itz Ka'anil," danced to music by Antonio Zepeda and Jorge Reyes.

It includes ancestral figures like Myron Stout and Paul Feeley; established contemporary painters like Stephen Westfall and Thomas Nozkowski; and newcomers like Karen Dow and Chuck Webster.

In addition to ancestral figures like Myron Stout and Moira Dryer, the show includes Philip Taaffe, Mary Heilmann and Chris Martin.

When she stylizes African dance, it becomes something new as in a solo for Edward Franklin, a wonderfully imposing dancer who watches over the heroine as an ancestral figure.

One of the highlights of the latter sale, which includes statues, goblets, masks, and even a pistol (from Mali), is an ornately carved statue from Papua New Guinea, depicting a female ancestral figure, or telum; it is a rare specimen discovered in the Finisterre Mountains in the late nineteenth century.

Lungkata was the Blue-Tongue Lizard Man, an ancestral figure responsible for creating bushfire.

Importantly, global population shares on average 2/3 of RMA sites with each of the major ancestral groups (Figure 1b, Supplementary Figure S1).

Languages are understood to have been directly installed in the landscape by ancestral creator figures.