Word: craftsmen
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...instance, MITI delayed limiting imports of endangered hawksbill turtles because the agency did not want to allocate quotas among different industries that used the shells. Finally, with both the turtles and the turtle-consuming industries facing extinction, MITI has taken the small step of limiting imports to traditional craftsmen who carve the carapaces into traditional hair combs. Says Toru Takimoto, MITI's point man on endangered species: "There is a dawning realization that we must protect these animals for the industries to survive...
There is nothing precious in either Nakashima's designs or his workshop. He employs ten assistant craftsmen and uses some power tools to do the rough work. The oil finish of his furniture merely needs to be cleaned with a wet cloth. "We recommend hard use," says Nakashima. "A wood surface that is without a scratch or mar is kind of distressing. It shows no life and has no time value." His business approach is equally straightforward. "I wanted," he says, "to make furniture out of real wood without it costing that much more than you would...
...latter-day art boom was fostered by Roman Catholic missionaries. Among them were Brother Marc-Stanislas Wallenda from Belgium, who founded Kinshasa's Academy of Fine Arts in 1943, and Father Kevin Carroll of Ireland, who in the same era came to work among Nigerian craftsmen. Most white missionary bishops back then, Carroll recalls, "thought we were wasting time." Political independence and the increase of black clergy accelerated the process that European Christians call adaptation or inculturation, meaning the incorporation of local culture into Christianity. Today Nigeria has Africa's largest corps of artists and artisans, and Zaire probably boasts...
...effort may be futile, though, unless demand for the animals' tusks is reduced sharply. Ivory is fashioned into everything from billiard balls and knife handles to necklaces and figurines. Craftsmen have even carved tusks into ornamental replicas of AK-47 assault rifles...
...Queen Mary, grandmother of Queen Elizabeth, with a dolls' house as a gesture of gratitude and loyalty after World War I. In Queen Mary's Dolls' House (Abbeville; 191 pages; $35), Mary Stewart-Wilson opens to our view the tiniest stately home in England. The empire's finest artists, craftsmen and manufacturers contributed to the miniature royal household: Doulton sent a gilded china service for 18 (including 22 serving and covered vegetable dishes); Waygood Otis built two working elevators; and Cartier made seven clocks and two barometers. A.E. Housman, who allowed some of his poems to be copied small...