Sentence examples for wood figures from inspiring English sources
Her work shares in the spirit, if not the appearance, of Daumier's sculptures and the small wood figures of Feininger.
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Small carved ivory or wood figures were worn by Ngbandi warriors, who carried shields made of decorated woven fibre.
Wood figures in the same powerful style were topped with skulls over which clay had been modeled; these were used in rainmaking as well as in mortuary ceremonies.
A first visit shows wood figures of beggars "painted and shellacked, the paint rubbed away by the strokings of visitors at their noses, nipples and crotches".
Meanwhile, certain objects in the Met's Asian galleries already look a bit different, like three willowy painted wood figures from the late Western Zhou-early Western Han period.
For her, the polychrome wood figure also plays the unlikely role of muse.
Outstanding is a silver and wood figure of Gauri, the goddess of agricultural abundance, resplendent in a silver-embossed sari and heavy silver jewelry.
A very different mood is generated by the carved wood figure of the Bodhisattva of Compassion recently installed in the museum's Chinese galleries.
A striking photograph of a wood figure of the war god Egbo from Dahomey is uncropped, showing the wall beyond the edges of the seamless paper.
The stone head remained in Macdonald's keeping until 1961, by which time the wood figure had passed into the possession of Robert Reisner, a New Yorker who had promoted Parker during the last phase of the saxophonist's life.
