There are a few ski hills scattered around but their lift systems, often relics from the Soviet era, are limited.
Ever since the middle ages, places associated with the lives of saints have benefited economically from their attraction to pilgrims seeking bed, board, and, very often, relics.
But the books she cites most often — musty relics from the 1960s and '70s — lack the authority of history, and their regular appearances serve mainly as stand-ins for the easy assumptions of that time.
Males often retain relics of their 'female' (technically, indifferent) origins, just as females may retain remnants of structures that arise in early embryos and later become male features.
And where there's a saint, there are often bodily relics to be venerated by the faithful.
While the ship's merchandise is being unloaded and bags of copra, oranges, grapefruit and limes are weighed to stow on board, the passengers have the opportunity to visit interior valleys, where they often see relics of an unknown past in the form of stone carvings called tikis.
Body painting in symbolic colours is characteristic of many tribal dances as a means of keeping away evil spirits, while the embroidery on a number of European national costumes is often a relic from the days when it functioned as a magic charm.
Indian relics often came up for auction, as did many other articles taken from "native" peoples.
But he noted that the Sotheby's auctions here often result in relics' being transferred from Western owners to Chinese owners, whether from Hong Kong, Taiwan or even mainland China.
Mr. Benes became so well known for collecting artifacts and turning them into art, that he developed a vast network of friends who would send him such relics – often they were items discarded by celebrities.
A viewer soon recognizes differences between Aztec art and the relics, often similar in motif and form, of the ancient Olmec (1300-400 B.C)., the Teotihuacán (first six centuries A.D ., and the Toltec (900-1150), and of contemporaneous groups, including the Mixtec and the Tarascan (whose blocky, peppily cartoonish figures were imitated by Keith Haring).
