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Very cool - and, of course, I especially like the Horse verts - I've always thought the cervical verts look like figures. Kind a pictured them as winged christmas angels.
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<div>An interesting idea for research, as you say! And there are also a large amount of contemporary examples of painted and/or carved bone elements which still retain their initial form... </div>
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<div>The pelvis seems to regularly strike a chord as a connection with the head/face -- the 19th C recreation of a "biblical giant" from mammoth bones which used the pelvis as the skull always brings a smile, and you can google it to see lots of current uses of the pelvis for a mask - with or without extra decoration. </div>
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<div>Similar to the exhibition, I recently saw some horse and cattle vertebra at a local 'new age' market - aside from being animal bones, the artist had no idea what they were, just considered them art from "found objects". <span style="font-size: 10pt;">Using bones as art material would be difficult to discriminate between something intended to have any ritual or spiritual meaning connected to the animal and simply an art medium. But I suppose that is always the nature of art...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">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. P</span>
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