Sentence examples for fetish figure from inspiring English sources

He's a fetish figure of sensitivity.

The magical substances are believed to invest the fetish figure with power and make it possible for the devotee to establish contact with the spirit (nkisi).

On any given weekend, a flea-market hound stopping at the Coles' stand is likely to happen upon a painted kitchen stool from the 1950s or else a canvas dog tote from Herm?or a beaded grass fetish figure from New Guinea or a silk peignoir washed and refreshed by Mrs. Cole or a jaunty cloth bag filled with hand-hewn clothespins found in Mrs. Wetterhahn's laundry room.

The Museum of Primitive Art was showing a collection of Congolese fetish figures and ritual masks.

This gives the movie an odd delicacy, especially in scenes when "Kirikou" is most effective, as when Karaba's fetish figures -- blockish and frightening -- charge onto the screen.

When a figure is carved for a newborn child, part of the placenta is placed in the stomach cavity of the figure while the rest is buried inside the father's hut (where the family's fetish figures are kept).

Chitra Ganesh's mesmerizing warrior-goddess self-portraits; Samira Abbassy's dark-skinned fetish figures; and Ms. Abichandani's photographic self-image as an extraterrestrial all give the concept of "undocumented alien" a new meaning.

The Ngbandi are also known for wooden fetishes and figures.

Examples include the religious pictures used in ancestor worship; the spirit and soul idols of various local cultures in animism; the fetish, or charm, figures of West African fetishism; and the magical objects of hunter and agrarian cultures.

Ms. Fischetti's "Fetish Queen" is a figure wearing red feathers and with a snake at the base.

But based on the activity on the largest fetish forums and sales figures, producers and site managers estimate there are maybe 100,000 necro fetishers worldwide.