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  2. Sailor tattoos - Wikipedia

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    Sailor tattoo motifs had already solidified by the early 19th century, with anchors, ships, and other nautical symbols being the most common images tattooed on American seafarers, followed by patriotic symbols such as flags, eagles, and stars; symbols of love; and religious symbols. [5]: 532–3

  3. Palmette - Wikipedia

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    The palmette is a motif in decorative art which, in its most characteristic expression, resembles the fan-shaped leaves of a palm tree. It has a far-reaching history, originating in ancient Egypt with a subsequent development through the art of most of Eurasia , often in forms that bear relatively little resemblance to the original.

  4. Flame palmette - Wikipedia

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    The flame palmette is a motif in decorative art which, in its most characteristic expression, resembles the fan-shaped leaves of a palm tree. Flame palmettes are different from regular palmettes in that, traditionally palmettes tended to have sharply splaying leaves. From the 4th century BCE however, the end of the leaves tend to turn in ...

  5. Tattoo - Wikipedia

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    The tattoo art was a sacred marker of identity among the Māori and also referred to as a vehicle for storing one's tapu, or spiritual being, in the afterlife. [98] One practice was after death to preserve the skin-covered skull known as Toi moko or mokomokai. In the period of early contact between Māori and Europeans these heads were traded ...

  6. Coat of arms of Haiti - Wikipedia

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    Coat of arms of Haiti; Armiger: Republic of Haiti: Adopted: 1986: Shield: A palm tree surmounted by a liberty cap on a stake, proper [1]: Supporters: A trophy of six rifles, six civil flags, two axes, two bugles, and a drum between two cannons pointing outwards on their gun-carriages, thereon two powder-bags, on the dexter one an infantry-hat, on the sinister one a cavalry-hat, between two ...

  7. Pattachitra - Wikipedia

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    First of all palm leaves are left for becoming hard after being taken from the tree. Then these are sewn together to form like a canvas. The images are traced by using black or white ink to fill grooves etched on rows of equal-sized panels of palm leaf that are sewn together.

  8. Children Under a Palm - Wikipedia

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    Children Under a Palm (or sometimes Children Under a Palm Tree) is a water colour painting executed in 1885 by the American artist Winslow Homer. It was featured in the second episode of the BBC TV series Fake or Fortune? .

  9. National symbols of Cuba - Wikipedia

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    National tree: Royal Palm: The Royal Palm is a large, ornamental species of palm tree, native to the Caribbean, and the mainland surrounding it. The tree has great significance in Santería, in which it is associated with the orisha Changó and his father, Aganyú. In Roman Catholicism, the Royal Palm's leaves are commonly used in Palm Sunday ...