Constructed from thin plaster shells made by applying medical plaster-impregnated bandages to real people, the figures are more like found objects than expressive representations.
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One of these legs terminated in a wooden, club-like foot; the other was encased in a more naturalistic plaster shell, jointed at the knee and ankle.
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Ayadi, blowing fine sand from a plaster shell known as the cartonnage to reveal an ornately painted male face, explains what is known about the lives of the family inside tomb No . 54.
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Despite a back injury that required him to wear a protective plaster shell screwed to his hip pad, Maentz led Michigan in pass receiving yards in 1955 and was selected as an All-Big Ten end.