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  2. 12 Valuable Swarovski Crystal Figurines That Cost a ... - AOL

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    Highest listing price on eBay: $350 First introduced in the ’90s, the polar bear crystal figurine sits on top of a silver mirrored plate, adding to his shining abilities under a lighted display.

  3. Stone carving - Wikipedia

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    The earliest known works of representational art are stone carvings. Often marks carved into rock or petroglyphs will survive where painted work will not. Prehistoric Venus figurines such as the Venus of Berekhat Ram may be as old as 250,000 years [citation needed], and are carved in stones such as tuff and limestone.

  4. Pounamu - Wikipedia

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    The Māori word pounamu is derived from namu, an archaic word that describes blue-green (or 'grue') cognate with Tahitian ninamu. [2] Pounamu, also used in New Zealand English, in itself refers to two main types of green stone valued for carving: nephrite jade, classified by Māori as kawakawa, kahurangi, īnanga, and other names depending on colour; and translucent bowenite, a type of ...

  5. Zuni fetishes - Wikipedia

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    Wolf fetish with medicine bundle and heartline carved by Stuart Lasiloo; jet, turquoise, coral, shell heshi; 2" L x 1.25" H x .5" W A grouping of hand-carved Zuni fetish objects by the Zuni artist Erik Lasiloo. Zuni fetishes are small carvings made from primarily stone but also shell, fossils, and other materials by the Zuni people.

  6. Nomoli figurine - Wikipedia

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    Nomoli figurines are among the earliest works of art from Sierra Leone. [3] The figurines and similar stone sculptures are the only known remains of an empire that existed hundreds of years ago in what is now Sierra Leone and Liberia. Portuguese explorers first recorded the existence of the figurines in the fifteenth century. [1]

  7. Kitsch and capitalism: The rise and fall of Hummel figurines

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    And suddenly you spot it: a box of Hummels, the collectible figurines that debuted in 1935 based on the illustrations of one Maria Innocentia Hummel, a German nun.