ivory carver

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• carver — [[t]kɑ͟ː(r)və(r)[/t]] carvers N COUNT: oft n N A carver is a person who carves wood or stone, as a job or as a hobby. The ivory industry employed about a thousand carvers …   English dictionary

• carver — n. Sculptor (in wood or ivory) …   New dictionary of synonyms

• Mary Carver Affair — An American ship and African warriors at Monrovia, Liberia in 1842 …   Wikipedia

• Elephant and mammoth ivory — Mammoth Ivory tusk carved by Japanese Master carver Elephant and mammoth tusk ivory comes from the two modified upper incisors of extant and extinct members of the order Proboscidea. Mammoths are believed to have been extinct for 10,000 years.… …   Wikipedia

• Georg Petel — (born Weilheim, Bavaria, 1601 2; died Augsburg, 1634) was a sculptor of the Early Baroque period and a European ivory carver. He was born in 1601/02 in Weilheim around forty kilometres south west of Munich, the son of Clement Petle (or Betle… …   Wikipedia

• Ferdinand Preiss — (February 13, 1882 1943) was a German sculptor. He was born in Erbach as one of six children. Both of his parents died when he was 15 and he became apprentice to an ivory carver. In 1901 he traveled to Italy. He later founded an ivory carving… …   Wikipedia

• Aleut — Infobox Ethnic group group = Aleut Traditional Aleut dress pop = 17,000 to 18,000 region1 = flagcountry|United States pop1 = 17,000 [including 5,000 part AleutFact|date=February 2007] ref1 = region2 = flagcountry|Russia pop2 = 700 ref2 =… …   Wikipedia

• Kai Lung Unrolls His Mat — Infobox Book | name = Kai Lung Unrolls His Mat image caption = Dust jacket from the first edition author = Ernest Bramah cover artist = country = United Kingdom language = English series = Kai Lung genre = Fantasy novel release date = 1928… …   Wikipedia

• Mother Earth Father Sky — is the first novel in Sue Harrison s Ivory Carver Trilogy dealing with the prehistoric Aleut tribes. It was first pub;ished in 1990.[1] It was followed by My Sister the Moon (1992) and Brother Wind (1994). In this novel, Chagak s tribe is… …   Wikipedia

• bookbinding — /book buyn ding/, n. the process or art of binding books. [1765 75; BOOK + BINDING] * * * Joining together of leaves of paper, parchment, or vellum within covers to form a book or codex. Bookbinding developed when the codex replaced the roll.… …   Universalium

• furniture — furnitureless, adj. /ferr ni cheuhr/, n. 1. the movable articles, as tables, chairs, desks or cabinets, required for use or ornament in a house, office, or the like. 2. fittings, apparatus, or necessary accessories for something. 3. equipment for …   Universalium