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Recent Nickel Carvings
"Ars longa, vita brevis"
- Hippocrates
Long after we are dust future numismatists will admire the nickel carvings being preserved for them in our collections... we are merely caretakers of these treasures. There are so many wonderful carvings being created today that my biggest problem in showing you these will almost certainly be those fine carvers who may be offended because I didn't show all y'all examples of their art here. All I can say is...
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Naming
Carvings Footnotes:
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1) Elder
Kami,
meaning 'A prickly lizard' ,
a Bidjigal man from the Botany Bay area, is a tribal elder and a 'Dreamer'.
2)
Cora Goosberry,
one Eyed Poll wife of King Bungaree,
was known as 'Queen of Sydney to South Head'
or 'Queen of Sydney and Botany' and was a Sydney identity for 20 years after Bungaree's death in 1830.
3)
Manu Aloha,
[mah' noo ah loh' hah], means Lovebird (Parrot) in Hawaiian,
so called because it can extend greetings (aloha).
4) The Roman
Neptune
'God of the Sea'
and the Greek
Poseidon
'God of the Sea'
were both names for the same deity.
5)
Kidogo Rafiki,
meaning 'small friend',
was drawn from the webpage 'Useful Swahili'.
6)
Originally coined by Thomas Keightley in The Fairy Mythology (1850) from the Irish 'Leith Bhroyan' or
Leith Phroyan,
meaning 'one shoemaker',
comes the name Leprechaun.
7) From MikeC:
OHNS.Webmaster,
is known in certain circles as 'V-Dubya' ,
a wild and wooly umbrae in his days.
Much about him is a mystery. Legend has it he ran with the 'Kid' in his younger days. That's 'Willy The Kid.'
( Do you suppose Mike meant "hombre"? Although... I reckon "umbrae" is aptly descriptive also. - vrw )
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