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    be suspended, multiple hooks are sometimes located around the shoulders, upper arm, back, and the knees. Finding the proper hook placement and number involves...
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    Flesh-hook is a term for a variety of archaeological artifacts which have metal hooks and a long handle, or socket for a lost wooden handle. Though the...
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    The Dunaverney Flesh-Hook is a sophisticated bronze artefact from Prehistoric Ireland, thought to be an item of ceremonial feasting gear, and a symbol...
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    yarn Drapery hook, for hanging drapery Dress hook, fashion accessory Ear hook, to attach earrings Fish hook, used to catch fish Flesh-hook, used in cooking...
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    play piercing is flesh hook suspension where a person is suspended vertically or horizontally by one or more hooks through their flesh. This practice is...
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    These practices may include body piercing, tattooing, play piercing, flesh hook suspension, corset training, scarification, branding, and cutting. The...
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    Thetford flesh-hook is a late Bronze-Age (1150 – 950 BC) artefact discovered in 1929 in Little Thetford, near Ely, Cambridgeshire, England. A flesh-hook is...
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    Little Thetford (1000–701 BC) flesh-hooks have been shown to be made using a lost-wax process. The Little Thetford flesh-hook, in particular, employed distinctly...
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    and the insectivore. Sprague participates in many public and private flesh hook suspension groups and events, and is highly involved in the body modification...
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    A Bronze Age cauldron, and flesh-hook, made from sheet bronze...
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    for a short time in the 1960s. In 1966 or 1967, he first performed a flesh hook suspension, inspired by his viewing of anthropological works. In 1977...
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    horns or trumpets, weapons, and vessels. The rather earlier Dunaverney flesh-hook (perhaps 1050–900 BC) is suggestive of a culture where elite feasting...
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    being practically unknown to the ancient Gaels. The cauldron, along with flesh-hooks for suspending the meat, eventually became preferred over the spit for...
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    decoration from Leer, Lower Saxony, northern Germany, (1100–800 BC) Dunaverney flesh-hook found near Ballymoney, Northern Ireland and part of the Dowris Hoard from...
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    Yutz Flagons (France), Wandsworth Shield (England), and the Dunaverney flesh-hook (late Bronze Age Ireland). Celtic burial practices, which included burying...
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    The hook point is probably the most important part of the hook, because it is the point that must penetrate into the fish's flesh first if the hook is...
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    the Flesh was released during the mid-1990s as a promotional item for the film of the same name. The game features a board, 1 die and cards (Hook, Candyman...
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    with his body. In 26 different performances he has suspended himself in flesh hook suspension, often with one of his robotic inventions integrated. His last...
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    Sheridan; Stuart Needham (2007). "The Dunaverney and Little Thetford Flesh-Hooks: History, Technology and Their Position within the Later Bronze Age Atlantic...
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  • at Bidzar, the Da Yu ding, and the Da Ke ding 1050 BC – The Dunaverney flesh-hook 1100 BC – The Stele of Untash Napirisha and the Chinese Ritual wine server...
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    A contextual discussion of the Salle and East Anglian cauldrons and flesh-hooks. Red Dagger Press, Cambridge. pp. 1–17. Battersea Cauldron, British Museum...
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    middle Bronze Age (1600–1001 BC) rapier in 1953, and a late Bronze Age flesh-hook in 1929. A Romano-British farm around 200 AD, largely built upon a previous...
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    brass pots, kettles, &c., 16 platters of old fashioned pewter, &c., a flesh hook and beam of iron and weights of lead of ½ cwt., 1 qr., 21 lbs., 1 stone...
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    of the Dowris Hoard, part of the Mooghaun North Hoard, the Dunaverney flesh-hook, the Kells Crozier, torcs, four crucifixion plaques, armlets, seals, religious...
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    A contextual discussion of the Salle and East Anglian cauldrons and flesh-hooks. Red Dagger Press, Cambridge. pp. 1–17. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored...
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    Arquebus (redirect from Hook guns)
    arquebusier. The term arquebus is derived from the Dutch word Haakbus ("hook gun"). The term arquebus was applied to many different forms of firearms...
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    The Hook Bill or Dutch Hookbill (Dutch: Kromsnaveleend or Krombekeend) is a breed of domestic duck characterised by an unusual down-curved beak. It is...
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    externally pierce (i.e. "snag") into the flesh of nearby fish, without needing the fish to swallow any hook with its mouth like in angling. This is achieved...
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  • the weirdness that made her a cult star. "Flesh Without Blood" is that in a nutshell––a sky-scraping hook pulled out of unintelligible vocals, served...
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    The point of land on the East River now called Corlears Hook was also called Corlaers Hook under Dutch and British rule and briefly Crown Point during...
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