Workmen were buried with fine ceramic figurines with beautiful headdresses.
A few small but extremely fine gold figurines of undoubted Javanese workmanship have also turned up.
Named for the village of Nok, site of some of the finds, the ancient culture produced fine terra-cotta figurines, which were accidentally discovered by tin miners on the Jos Plateau in the 1930s.
The climax of the Inca capacocha ceremony involved the sacrifice of children and their burial with lavish grave goods, such as cumbi textiles, fine pottery, and figurines made of gold, silver and Spondylus shell.
The site was abandoned and, like a fairytale castle, all memory of her was forgotten until the mid-1970s when guaqueros (looters), hunting for tropical bird feathers, pulled back the tangled roots and discovered a deserted metropolis complete with burial plots filled with golden earrings, jadeite figurines and fine pottery.
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On a recent visit, most of Mr. Rockefeller's prized possessions had been removed — paintings by the likes of Picasso, Renoir and Monet; a cache of prized porcelain figurines; stacks of fine china.
One young woman, one girl, and one boy were found together with more than one hundred offerings comprising metal figurines, Spondylus shell, fine imperial pottery, cumbi textiles, and feathered adornments of tropical birds, all in an excellent state of preservation (cf. [ 19, 59]).
There was, however, an older Archaic Greek commerce in olive oil, perfumes, fine pottery, bronze jugs, armour, and figurines carried past the Strait of Gibraltar by the Phoenicians.
Pure white porcelain figurines are usually be fine.
