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Handmade rag dolls. A rag doll is a doll made from scraps of fabric.They are one of the oldest children's toys in existence. Today, many rag dolls are commercially produced to mimic aspects of the original home-made dolls, such as simple features, soft cloth bodies, and patchwork clothing.
Humanity and life lie at the intersection of the natural and the supernatural, according to the underlying Kuba myth. As a result, rectilinear lines in Kuba art depict natural patterns. Both in art and nature, these lines occasionally disrupt what we take to be geometric order. [5] The improvised patterns are mostly made using three methods:
An adult Netherland Dwarf rabbit in Sable Point colour. The Netherland Dwarf breed was first produced in the Netherlands in the early 20th century. Small Polish rabbits were bred with smaller wild rabbits; [3] after several generations the resulting animal was a very small domestic rabbit available in a wide variety of colours and patterns.
The term coney is a term for an adult rabbit used until the 18th century; rabbit once referred only to the young animals. [2] More recently, the term kit or kitten has been used to refer to a young rabbit. [3] [4] The endearing word bunny is attested by the 1680s as a diminutive of bun, a term used in Scotland to refer to rabbits and squirrels. [5]
Detail of Cavandoli macramé. Macramé is a form of textile produced using knotting (rather than weaving or knitting) techniques.. The primary knots of macramé are the square (or reef knot) and forms of "hitching": various combinations of half hitches.
This art form is called "skin-sewing." Cup'ik kayak stanchions, collection of the University of Alaska Museum of the North. The left is a male figure, while the right is female. The Yup'ik tribes traditionally decorate most all of their tools, even ones that perform smaller functions. [3]
In particular, the teeth show a simpler pattern than in the kangaroo family, with longer upper incisors, larger canines, and four cusps on the molars. [2] However, both groups possess a wide diastema between the incisors and the cheek teeth, and the potoroids have a similar dental formula to their larger relatives:
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