Another major motif is the snake, which (even in areas where direct Indianizing influence was not strong) is frequently combined with imagery derived from the cult of the powerful, magical Hindu naga; often many-headed, this serpent is the patron and guardian of water and treasure, both material and spiritual.
The end of apartheid deprived South African artists of a bottomless treasure chest of material.
Likewise the newspaper where I tapped out Tales every afternoon offered a treasure trove of material, since my desk was adjacent to that of the society editor.
This treasure trove of material was only recently brought to light by Mark Logue, his grandson, who has written a companion book for the film with Peter Conradi, also under the title "The King's Speech".
They say they will not release any more of the "treasure trove" of material taken from the house, but claim that they have plenty of other evidence that Mr bin Laden was remarkably active, using his home in Pakistan as a "command-and-control centre".
The past-tense title of her memoirs aptly summons up apprehension of a career that belonged to the vanished days of the studio system - of overnight discovery, the gilded bondage of long-term contracts, the diktat of gossip columnists and fan magazines (for whom the marriage of Leigh and Curtis represented a treasure trove of material).
"There is a treasure trove of material that has been collected over the years," he says.
There's this treasure trove of material that we're just now starting to edit and figure out how to piece it all together".
Just when I thought I could answer any trivia question on David O. Selznick's 1939 production of Gone with the Wind, comes a treasure of new material in Steve Wilson's book, The Making of Gone with the Wind.
Today, the company owns the rights to compositions and recordings by Sam Cooke, The Rolling Stones, Bobby Womack, Eric Burdon, The Animals, Herman's Hermits, Marianne Faithfull, and The Kinks as well as the treasure trove of material in the Cameo Parkway catalogue by such artists as Chubby Checker, Bobby Rydell, ?
