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... human images . Composite costumes of wooden masks and feather capes were worn for certain rituals . Polynesia . The arts of Polynesian societies possessed similarities derived from a prototype ancestral culture in east- ern Melanesia ...
... human images . Composite costumes of wooden masks and feather capes were worn for certain rituals . Polynesia . The arts of Polynesian societies possessed similarities derived from a prototype ancestral culture in east- ern Melanesia ...
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... human figures which represent mythical beings from " the Dreaming " . Human beings are often an im- pressive feature of the painted galleries . In the Kimberley dis- trict are the Wandjina paintings , illustrating myths that belong to ...
... human figures which represent mythical beings from " the Dreaming " . Human beings are often an im- pressive feature of the painted galleries . In the Kimberley dis- trict are the Wandjina paintings , illustrating myths that belong to ...
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... human gesture . A fascination with duplications of human beings in convincing life - size replicas is an age - old obsession , dating back in modern times to Mary Shelley's Frankenstein . Today , when originals and reproductions are no ...
... human gesture . A fascination with duplications of human beings in convincing life - size replicas is an age - old obsession , dating back in modern times to Mary Shelley's Frankenstein . Today , when originals and reproductions are no ...
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