Designed to lead a hard life, to be climbed on, toppled over and tossed around by children, the big animals are essentially pieces of furniture: they have an internal wood structure, and Müller can spend an entire day stuffing the jute carcass around the frame with "wood wool" (fresh wood shavings).
To numb his grief, the herder is said to have fashioned a musical instrument from the animal's carcass, covering a wooden frame with its skin, crafting strings and a bow from its tail hair, and carving the scroll in its image.
Up above is the metal frame from which carcasses would once have hung.
In the same period, local hunters selectively culled only 18 mangy chamois, and further 65 mangy carcasses were found in the frame of passive and active surveillance conducted with "traditional" methods (namely without dogs).
Pointing to the carcass of a Winnebago, only its frame and driver's cab remaining, Mr. Hill said it was one of the many fix-it projects that occupy his days.
A month before the frame was due, the underlying carcass was already complete and a concave section of its outer edge was being sanded by an assistant.
Thus, selection for low RFIfat breeding stock will have little to no effect on progeny growth, frame size, mature size or carcass characteristics.
YOU see them every day on the street, bicycles that have been stripped as if vultures have picked on the carcass until all that is left is the frame.
On a parched lawn across from the Kabul Old Theater, a lone movie camera guarded by four armed policemen frames a plane's bullet-riddled carcass.
One stirring sequence begins with a lion hauling a zebra to the ground in center frame; for a few hours after, the carcass is the site of a busy feast.
