Word: jades
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Miao have maintained their own tribal governments, customs and dress. They pan gold and hunt animals, trading metal and furs with the plains people for manufactured goods. They farm and raise sheep, spinning the wool into long capes. Yi and Miao women are heavily bejeweled with amber and jade, worked in silver. Most of them smoke long, thin pipes. Yi and Miao characters are written in a horizontal line instead of vertically like the Chinese...
...English art has vanished more completely than that of the Nottingham alabastermen. Once, throughout Europe, their work was literally worshiped; today, London's man-in-the-street finds it less familiar than Congo carvings, Chinese jade, or Henry Moore's pinheaded women. Now a wealthy U.S. expatriate, Dr. Walter Leo Hildburgh, has set out to remind England of its alabastrine past...
Besides doing the carpentry, the wiring, the painting, the plumbing, and the heating work on the units, the Federal Public Housing Authority throws in with each home a jade-green plastic shower curtain, an ice-box, a porcellain towel rack, an aluminum mailbox, and a two-plate electric stove complete with oven. Everything else is up to the individual, but the University has a limited amount of furniture available for rental...
...Zapotecs at Monte Alban, near Oaxaca, had been excavated. Digging carefully into the 60 square kilometers of overgrown mounds, Dr. Caso's men unearthed a dazzling complex of subtly designed stone tombs and religious buildings. In many they found golden masks and necklaces, carvings of stone and jade which had escaped the greedy Conquistadors...
...diggers probed the relics left by this simple people, they found unsimple things. The La Ventas were remarkable artists, who carved hardest jade into human figurines, ornamented ax heads, beads, earplugs, pendants. They were excellent potters, too. Example: a baked clay whistle in the form of a realistic bird, which gives the cry of the bird it represents...