[Bonetools] Painted bone

[Kordula Gostencnik]

Dear Sonia,

I only have some references as to coloured or painted bone and ivory tools
from antiquity, which are not connected with what you are looking for.
Please check my papers in "academia.edu".

Sincerly
Kordula Gostencnik

2015-07-27 10:21 GMT+02:00 Christian Küchelmann <info at knochenarbeit.de>:

> Dear Sonia,
>
> your Mail rings a couple of bells in my mind concerning painted bones
> although they might not nessecarily what you look for.
>
>
> Grieshofer et al. (2004, 154) list several childrens toy farm animals
>  from remote parts of Switzerland made of bones (astragali, metatarsi,
> phalanges, vertebrae), some of them painted.
>
> Barthelmess (1994) has collected a series of painted whale shoulder blades
> used for various purposes from tavern signs to art objects.
>
> Finally your mail reminded me of early modern anatomical models made from
> Ivory or bone sometimes displayed in 16th-17 century Wunderkammern. See
> e.g. here:
>
> http://www.beyars.com/dbgfx/pix/1781_069-elfenbein-anatomie-frau-philippovich-300.jpg
> http://www.zeller.de/img/anatomisches-modell-einer-schwangeren-frau-b5.jpg
>
> Regards
>
> Christian
>
> Refernces:
> # Barthelmeß, Klaus (1994): Neun bemalte Walschulterblätter und ein
> beschnitzter Wal-Humerus (Oberarmknochen). – Deutsches Schiffahrtsarchiv
> 17, 253-272
>
> # Grieshofer, Franz / Pallestrang, Kathrin / Witzmann, Nora (2004):
> Ur-Ethnografie – Auf der Suche nach dem Elementaren in der Kultur – Die
> Sammlung Eugenie Goldstern, Kataloge des Österreichischen Museums für
> Volkskunde 85, Wien
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>
> Am 22.07.2015 um 13:26 schrieb Sonia O'Connor:
>
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>
>
>  Dear All,
>
>
>  I have attached a photo I took in Hull Maritime Museum - a cetacean
> auditory bulla painted to form a face.  I was reminded of this when I
> received this Tweet this morning
>
> https://twitter.com/PatHadley/status/622016063690121218
>
>    Pat Hadley on Twitter: "New favourite artefact! @YorkCastle has a
> whole set of these horse vertebrae figures! http://t.co/Vbbae7lU6l
> http://t.co/H3Ch5yle21"
>  “New favourite artefact! @YorkCastle has a whole set of these horse
> vertebrae figures! http://t.co/Vbbae7lU6l”
>  Read more...
>   I think these objects qualify as 'worked'.
>
>
> Both these objects are relatively recent survivals (the preacher is
> possibly 18th C and the face 19th or even 20th C). Can anyone post
> other/earlier examples? What other species/skeletal elements were used and
> what were the subjects that these natural shapes inspired? I wonder how far
> back this traditions goes?  There are now many records of painted pebbles
> from sites, such as those from Shetland
> http://www.archaeologyreportsonline.com/PDF/ARO12_Painted_Pebbles.pdf for
> instance. Even if the paint is lost sometimes the bone many have been
> modified a little to enhance the shape or add detail.
>
>
>  Unlike gaming pieces, these objects are not necessarily functional  but
> might still have been significant to their owners in other ways. Perhaps
> just the pleasing shape of some  bones led to them being retained and
> handled (in the way that some fossils clearly were and still are by the
> finder). Humour is something that is difficult to detect through the study
> of bone finds but these two examples appear to me to be comical. Possibly
> some bones were kept as lucky charms?
>
>
>  The evidence might be quite slight but I think this would be a
> fascinating area to investigate. Is anyone doing this?
>
>
>  Sonia
>
>
>
>
>
>   Dr Sonia O'Connor PhD FSA FIIC ACR Honorary Visiting Fellow, University
> of York
> Post-doctoral Researcher
> Archaeological Sciences
> Division of AGES
> University of Bradford
> Bradford, West Yorkshire, BD7 1DP
>
>  Tel 01274 236498
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