Aleut carvings are distinct in each region and have attracted traders for centuries.

The elephant ’ s head, trunk, and tusks are characteristic of baku portrayed in classical era ( pre-Meiji ) Japanese wood-block prints ( see illustration ) and in shrine, temple, and netsuke carvings.

Some ornamental bokken are decorated with mother-of-pearl work and elaborate carvings.

There are several stone carvings of triangular harps from the 10th century, many of which have simple triangular shapes, generally with straight pillars, straight string arms or necks, and soundboxes.

That music of youth, with its little sins and absurdities that almost point out the sentimental affectation … appears to me like the carvings in the Alhambra, those peculiar arabesques that say nothing with their turns and shapes, but which are like the air, like the sun, like the blackbirds or like the nightingales of its gardens.

Salukis are considered to be one of the oldest dog breeds in existence, with excavations of Sumerian Empire sites between 7000-6000 BC showing carvings and seals that look similar to the modern breed.

* Buddhist caves are found at Ajanta ( India ) with stone carvings ( approximate date ).

There are a large number of Aboriginal rock paintings and carvings along the stock route.

Visitors entering the massive, carved mesquite-wood doors of San Xavier are often struck by the coolness of the interior, and the dazzling colors of the paintings, carvings, frescoes and statues.

These watchtowers vary in design but are generally rounded and bear armorial or symbolic carvings on their exterior.

Above the window are carvings of angels and to either side long stone ladders with angels climbing up them.

Guy de la Bédoyère also warns against reading too much in to size differences or natures in the figures, which have been used to promote theories of different roles for the three figures, arguing that at the skill level of most of the carvings, small differences in size are more likely to be hit-and-miss consequences, and pointing out that experimental archaeology has shown hooded figures one of the easiest sets of figures to carve.

Both the statue and the base upon which it sits are covered in carvings of sacred and psychoactive organisms including mushrooms ( Psilocybe aztecorum ), tobacco ( Nicotiana tabacum ), Ololiúqui ( Turbina corymbosa ), sinicuichi ( Heimia salicifolia ), possibly cacahuaxochitl ( Quararibea funebris ), and one unidentified flower.

Cult figures made from wood carvings were very popular in pre-Christian times and are still popular on the island today.

So the inhabitants are killed, and Ruapupuke burns the house, taking some of the carvings back with him to use as a model for carving in the human world ( Tregear 1891: 350 )

One of the largest objects in the collection is the Hertogenbosch Roodloft, from Holland, dated 1610 – 1613 this is as much a work of architecture as sculpture, 10. 4 metres wide, 7. 8 metres high, the architectural framework is of various coloured marbles including columns, arches and balustrade, against which are statues and bas-reliefs and other carvings in alabaster, the work of sculptor Conrad van Norenberch.

There are many aboriginal sites within the park including cave paintings, axe grinding grooves and rock carvings.

Local carvings of whalebone and walrus ivory are sought after by galleries in Alaska and the Lower 48.

Birch baskets, fur pelts, and jade, quartz, bone and ivory carvings are sold in gift shops throughout the state.

Internally, the rooms are sumptuously decorated with gildings, carvings and cartoons, many allegorical in style, depicting the seasons, myths and fables.

The Jeffers Petroglyphs, a series of Native American stone carvings ranging from 150 to 9000 years old, are also named for George Jeffers and are several miles northeast of the town.

There are 11 carvings of moose, and also two that are more difficult to interpret.

While precisely dating the rock carvings has been difficult, repatination of surface minerals reveals their relative ages.

Other difficult carvings, such as chains, were as much a demonstration of the carver's skill as a symbolic meaning.

The rock carvings are located west of the river Lågen about 1. 5 km above the Brunlaug bridge ( they are difficult to reach when the river is flooded ).

Some of these carvings are thought to as much as two or even three thousand years old and are now becoming difficult to see.

Heyerdahl had long been fascinated with the rock carvings that date back to about 10, 000 B. C.

The Kelleys Island Historical Society believes that the carvings date to roughly 1643, and that the rock was used by the Native Americans to impart information to one another about how the hunting had been in the area, and where their group would next be traveling to.

While an earlier date is favoured, an association with accounts of Máel Coluim's has been proposed on the basis of the iconography of the carvings.

These artifacts include rock carvings at Shek Pik which are thought to date back to the Bronze Age, and a stone circle at Fan Lau which is probably from the Neolithic Age.

Of its many noteworthy collections, the Nimrud gold collection — which features gold jewelry and figures of precious stone that date to the 9th century bce — and the collection of stone carvings and cuneiform tablets from Uruk are exceptional.

The first sculptures in India date back to the Indus Valley civilization, where stone and bronze carvings have been discovered.

Other buildings, including some town houses, date back to the 18th century, and are decorated with stone carvings.

Ancient rock carvings on the island, believed to date back to the Bronze Age ( around 1500-700 BC ), were discovered in the 1960s.

Remnant's 1969 catalogue dismisses everything after that date as " modern ", rarely even affording it a description, but there are many wonderful carvings from the Victorian era, and even the modern day.

The carvings date back to between 5th and 8th centuries.

Though worn by exposure to the elements after the collapse of the cathedral's central tower, these capitals are among the finest stone carvings of their date to survive in Scotland.

The earliest carvings probably date to 6000-5500 BC, while the later ones are from the period 1500-200 BC.

It was in use at least since late 16th century BCE, but most of the rock carvings date to the reign of the Hittite kings Tudhaliya IV and Suppiluliuma II in the late 13th century BCE, when the site underwent a significant restoration.

Many of the rich Buddhist carvings in the Feilai Feng grottos and surrounding mountains also date from this era.

The heads of the pillars built in 1541 – 1542 have unique carvings, one giving the date mdxlii ( 1542 ) and the others giving stages of the work on the church from the architect ’ s plans to the reconsecration of the completed church.

This art includes cave paintings, such as the famous paintings at Pech Merle in the Lot in Languedoc which date back to 16, 000 BC, Lascaux, located near the village of Montignac, in the Dordogne, dating back to between 13, 000 and 15, 000 BC, or perhaps, as far back as 25, 000 BC, the Cosquer Cave, the Chauvet Cave, and the Trois-Frères cave ; and portable art, such as animal carvings and great goddess stauettes called Venus figurines, such as the " Venus of Brassempouy " of 21, 000 BC, discovered in the Landes, now in the museum at the Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye.