Title: Custom Artistic Carving & Handcrafted Life Size Box Wood Skull
Shipping: $69.00
Artist: N/A
Period: Contemporary
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Condition: Excellent
Item Date: New
Item ID: 5411
Contemporary * * Perfect, Large 4.1" Boxwood Carving. You are looking at a Boxwood skull. The skull is 4.1 inches long, from front to back. All carved skulls are custom made, the work can take up to 6 weeks. The wood possibilities are endless. In addition to the many profiles we offer, our sculpting technicians and artist can produce custom profiles to your specifications. We will work with you from sketches and your imagination to create the perfect design and wood color, texture, and style. Because material selection is a very important part of the process, we insist on getting your approval of the material and size to be used. Please contact 415-776-0104. We are committed to enhancing our customer’s lives by discovering creating, and pointing out only the best art we can find in the world today. We are Taste-Makers, Art Advisers & Consultants.
Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skull
The skull is a bony structure in the head of many animals that supports the structures of the face and forms a cavity for the brain. The skull is composed of two parts: the cranium and the mandible. A skull without a mandible is only a cranium. Animals that have skulls are called craniates. The skull is a part of the skeleton. Functions of the skull include protection of the brain, fixing the distance between the eyes to allow stereoscopic vision, and fixing the position of the ears to help the brain use auditory cues to judge direction and distance of sounds. In some animals, the skull also has a defensive function (e.g. horned ungulates); the frontal bone is where horns are mounted.
In humans, as in other mammals, the aforementioned division of the skull into the cranium and mandible is not usually followed. Instead, for the purposes of describing their anatomy and enumerating their bones, mammalian and human skulls are divided differently: They are deemed to consist of two categorical parts, the neurocranium and the viscerocranium. The neurocranium (or braincase) is a protective vault surrounding the brain. The viscerocranium (also splanchnocranium or facial skeleton) is formed by the bones supporting the face. Both parts have different embryological origins.
Except for the mandible, all of the bones of the skull are joined together by sutures, rigid articulations permitting very little movement.
