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...wood carving. He presented a number of bultos, which are Southwestern religious carvings, each whittled from a single block of wood. To the most ambitious of these, a 14-in. stump of native pine carved into simplified interlocking trees and figures representing the Hope or Four Stages of Man, Whittler Barela appended his own explanation...
Motor Habits-the way people use their bodies-seem to be closely linked with the biological makeup. They are fairly uniform over wide areas. The American Indian cuts by drawing the knife toward himself; the African native cuts away from himself, like a New England whittler. Postures and gesticulations are good indicators of motor habits. To sort out cultural from biological factors, therefore, Dr. Boas made motion pictures of conversational gestures of different nationalities, projected the frames slowly one after another, translated the movements. Typical findings...
Look over the next in the series. In all eighty-seven authors are represented, with New England leading. But Dickens and Thackeray, Charles Kingsley and Jean Ingelow, Tennyson, even the London Times, are in the list. Whittler tells about "the fish I didn't catch," and Tom Hood about "faithless Nelly Grey...
...youth bushy-haired, bespectacled Bill Stout was a great whittler, taught the boys in his father's pastorate in St. Paul to carve toys. His whittling permitted him on several occasions to navigate early financial straits when he was struggling with the development of the thick, interior-trussed wing, the "Bat Wing" monoplane, the first all-metal planes. A onetime journalist, he sold stock in the Stout Metal Airplane Co. (purchased by Ford Motor Co.) with the proposition: "I want to take $1,000 of your money to see if I can develop something in the aviation field...
...Longfellow and Whittler." Professor Matthiessen, Harvard...