The Venus of Brassempouy ( French: la Dame de Brassempouy, meaning " Lady of Brassempouy ", or Dame à la Capuche, " Lady with the Hood ") is a fragmentary ivory figurine from the Upper Palaeolithic.

The Art Deco sculptor Demetre Chiparus produced a Rubinstein figurine, and she was also painted by Antonio de la Gandara.

These nutcrackers portray a person with a large mouth which the operator opens by lifting a lever in the back of the figurine.

As they argue over their memories of the Creedish way of life, Tender crashes the car, which sends a dashboard figurine ( of Tender ) into Adam's eye.

Mannequin comes from the French word mannequin, which had acquired the meaning " an artist's jointed model ", which in turn came from the Middle Dutch word mannekijn, meaning " little man, figurine ".

The only three-dimensional depiction of Khufu that can definitely be connected with him is a small and partially damaged ivory figurine which shows the king with the Red Crown of Upper Egypt.

And finally, Hawass argues that also the sort of throne on which the figurine is seated does not match the artistic styles of any Old Kingdom artifact.

He was accused of making an attempt on the king's life when a wax figurine pricked with needles, which he had obtained from the astrologer Cosimo Ruggieri, was found in his possession.

Popular models include Cloud's Advent Children figurine and Final Fantasy VII Hardy Daytona bike set, both of which sold particularly well in European and North American markets.

Most common, however, is the jaguar transformation figurine ( see Commons photo ), which show a wide variety of styles, ranging from human-like figurines to those that are almost completely jaguar, and several where the subject appears to be in a stage of transformation.

A tall figurine of Parvati stands to the left of Shiva, which is also seen partly broken but well bejeweled.

Weekly Dearest My Brother is a manga and figurine series which according to Takashi Murakami, women find cute and " an innocent fantasy ", but arouse " pedophiliac desires " among men.

The female figurines can be subdivided into three groups which were popular at different periods: the earliest are the Phi-type: these look like the letter phi and their arms give the upper body of the figurine a rounded shape.

The Venus of Dolní Věstonice () is a Venus figurine, a ceramic statuette of a nude female figure dated to 29, 000 – 25, 000 BCE ( Gravettian industry ), which was found at a Paleolithic site in the Moravian basin south of Brno.

Part of the promotion was the sale of a talking David Boon figurine with purchases of beer, which would make comments when prompted by Channel Nine commentary.

A humanoid figurine with pins stuck into it: this was one method by which cunning folk battled witches using magical means.

The is a common Japanese figurine ( lucky charm, talisman ), usually made of ceramic, which is believed to bring good luck to the owner.

He uses a " magical " key, which belonged to his great-grandmother, to bring a plastic Native American figurine to life with the cupboard.

Metalcasting began in the Indus Valley Civilization around 3500 BC in the Mohenjodaro area, which produced the earliest known example of lost-wax casting, the Indian bronze figurine named the “ dancing girl ” that dates back nearly 5, 000 years to the Harappan period.

The figurine was determined to be about 32, 000 years old by carbon dating material from the same layer in which the sculpture was found.

During the TV coverage of parade which occurred two days later, Comcast aired an ad congratulating the Phillies which featured the small figurine of William Penn standing at the top of the Comcast tower.

The film was funded with the proceeds of a sale of a wooden figurine of Henry Ward Beecher, which Leyda had originally found in a junk shop, to a representative of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller.

The first few seasons revolved around random running gags and toilet humor, the most famous of which revolved around the source of lemon sours received in packaged figurine boxes, which are nothing more than the feces of King Ghidorah.

Later, Spade is visited by Joel Cairo, who offers Spade $ 5, 000 if he can retrieve a figurine of a black bird that has recently arrived in San Francisco.

An area for some confusion is that the names of the pieces can change throughout their run so the same figurine may end up with several titles.

The " Venus " of Valdivia likely represented actual people, as each figurine is individual and unique, as can be seen by the hairstyles.

The benefit, to buying Boss coffee from a store, is you can purchase the Boss coffee with a collector ’ s edition figurine or pull back toy when Boss is running a new campaign.

No's hands have great strength ( he can crush a metal figurine with them ), but are seriously lacking in manual dexterity.

He is renowned for having a seemingly unlimited supply of magical tricks: an eye patch that prevents magical and psionic intrusion and enhances his vision ; a hat with a large feather that can be used to summon a diatryma ( a large flightless bird native to the Underdark ), and is a nondimensional space to hide things ( nondimensional means that he can put items which are many times the size of the hat in ); a many-hued piwafwi that displaces projectiles, thus hindering ranged attacks and makes him invisible on his command ; a varied array of magical wands ; two artifacts ( from a lich named Zhengyi ), which have the power to raise humans from the dead and employ the help of a powerful dracolich, a ring which protects from fire or ice by choice, a dragon figurine that can summon the breath of chromatic dragons, a ring that tells when someone is lying, a necklace which gives him supernatural power and speed, a sword which can control the mind of weak people, and many other unknown magical items.

One example can be seen in the book Mystery of the Whale Tattoo in which the Hardy boys are deeply involved in a mystery of a missing valuable figurine that had been stolen years before by a gang of thieves who were known for having whale tattoos and using names of whales as aliases.

Later, Kikyo fakes her death so she can turn on Goemon, steal the dragon figurine and side with Chen Zhenzhong.

Zeebad animates the Foot Guard figurine, Sergeant Sam, and enlists him to find the enchanted diamonds first, for with them Zeebad can freeze the sun itself.

In addition cardboard figurine cutouts which can be used in a manner similar to miniatures, and a short adventure designed to use the pieces that come with the supplement, are included.

Bronze deer figurine dating from between the XI and VI centuries BC, National Archaeological Museum ( Bulgaria ) | National Archaeological Museum of Sofia

For example: in Africa, the bronze heads of the Kingdom of Benin ; in Europe, Grecian bronzes typically of figures from Greek mythology ; in east Asia, Chinese bronzes of the Shang and Zhou dynasty — more often ceremonial vessels but including some figurine examples.

Bronze figurine of a " Horned God " from Enkomi, Cyprus

The Bull Leaper, an ivory figurine from the palace of Knossos, Crete, 15th century BCE

A figurine from Mehrgarh, c. 3000 BCE.

Gutman tells him that the figurine was a gift from the Knights of Malta to the King of Spain, but was lost in transit.

Besides what was recovered from KV20 during Howard Carter's clearance of the tomb in 1903, other funerary furniture belonging to Hatshepsut has been found elsewhere, including a lioness " throne " ( bedstead is a better description ), a senet game board with carved lioness-headed, red-jasper game pieces bearing her pharaonic title, a signet ring, and a partial shabti figurine bearing her name.

An excavation by French archaeologists in 1969 produced a plethora of objects of antiquity including a rare Neolithic male figurine, Mycenean shards, bone flutes, iron and bronze rings, miniature bronze statues, 50, 000 terracotta figurines from the classical period and 24, 000 astragoloi, or " knucklebones " ( used for astragolomancy, or " prophecy by knucklebones ").

A gilded wooden figurine of a deer from the Pazyryk burials, 5th century BC

An action figure is a posable character figurine, made of plastic or other materials, and often based upon characters from a film, comic book, video game, or television program.

It is believed that the Daruma figurine then originated from this region when the ninth priest, Togaku, found a solution to handle the constant requests of the parishioners for new charms.

A traditional Provençal Santon ( figurine ) | santon, or Christmas creche figure, from Arles, facing the mistral

An archetypical baby-face figurine from Las Bocas.

A jade fetal-style figurine from Guerrero, Mexico.

Veiled dancer, ancient Greek terracotta figurine from Myrina ( Mysia ) | Myrina, ca.

For example, brushes lightly dust the tiniest figurine, they help scrub stains out of clothing and shoes, they remove grime from tires, and they remove the dirt and debris found on floors with the help of a dust pan.

A Dogū figurine from 1000-400 BC

A gilded wooden figurine of a deer from the Pazyryk burials, 5th century BC

A garden gnome or lawn gnome is a figurine of a small humanoid creature, usually wearing a pointy hat, produced for the purpose of ornamentation and protection from evil sorcery, typically of gardens or on lawns.

This figurine, together with a few others from nearby locations, is the oldest known ceramic article in the world.