Colono-Indian pottery; body pinkish buff with traces of red ocher in the clay; exterior surface highly burnished.
Storage jar or pipkin, pale-pink ware flecked with ocher and occasional granules of quartz, a clear lead glaze imparts an orange color to the surface, and is locally streaked with green.
The peculiar orange or rather reddish-ocher color with which the whole plant is pervaded at maturity is very remarkable.
The crest of the slope they followed commanded a vast circle of grass that was changing in the foreground from green to ocher and silvery white.
The blue of the sky was softer, the light less strong; the varying hues of lemon and copper and ocher had become subdued; the shadows were no longer darkly blue but a cool restful gray.
Her pose, although scarcely a conventional one, showed to advantage the fine contour of her form; and the lilac-tinted dress that flowed in classic lines about her made a patch of cool restful color on the warm ocher of her surroundings.
These bows are often highly ornamented both by carving and with incised patterns colored with red ocher or soot.
A cross of red ocher is marked in the middle of the bowl, and there is a shallow groove, colored with blacklead, along the middle of the handle on top.
The figures are all incised and colored, some with ocher and some with soot.
The custom of painting wooden objects with red ocher seemed to be rather more common among the "Nunatanmiun," from whom perhaps the Point Barrow people borrowed the fashion, which is not mentioned among the eastern Eskimo.
It will be noticed that whenever the bone or ivory parts of weapons are decorated the ornamentation is usually in the form of incised lines colored with red ocher or soot.
They are, I think, universally painted with red ocheron the outside and blackened inside.
They are generally painted with red ocher except on the inside of the groove.
A couple of loose hawk's feathers are stuck into the tip of the block, which is painted with red ocher for about an inch.
The specimens figured show the different styles of ornamentation, which always consist of incised patterns colored with red ocher or rarely with soot.
The original ornamentation consists of an incised pattern on the upper surface of the butt, colored with red ocher which has turned black from age and dirt.
The eyebrows and moustache are marked out with blacklead, and there are traces of red ocher on the cheeks.
The image is ancient, but is mounted in a socket in the middle of a newly made wooden stand, which has a broad border of red ocher and a broad streak of the same paint along each diameter.
It is painted on the edge with red ocher and has a streak of the same color down the ridge of the nose.
N512] The red ocher is applied smoothly in a rather thin coat which looks as if it were always put on in the manner observed by Capt.
The shaft is painted with red ocher to within 131/2 inches (the length of the throwing board) from the butt.
The specimen is partially saturated with fat, and bears an ocher stain attesting use in the preparation of face-paint.
Triturating face-paint by pounding and kneading; in one case the specimen served as a hand implement, while in another case it took the place of the ahst, the ocher lump itself being struck and rubbed against it.
Female--The female is much more of an ocher brown than the male, and without the stripe on the neck or the lead color of the bill.
Its rich metallic colors of black, cinnamon, chestnut and ocher give it a combination of hues surpassing that of any other of our game birds.
One narrow road zigzagged up the steep side of the great rock, sometimes disappearing into clumps of trees, a white streak against the ocher cliffs.
The railroad leads almost straight north from Santa Fe over high, clear mesas of yellow ocher covered with scrub juniper.
I have heard Eastern art critics say that artists of the Southwest laid on their colors too strongly contrasted, too glaring, too much brick red and yellow ocher and purple.
The yellow ocher rocks close on each side in walled ramparts, and nestling in an angle of rock you see a little fenced ranch house, where they charge ten cents a glass for the privilege of their spring.
All the caves have been originally plastered in a sort of terra cotta orocher stucco.
Ochropurpurea is from ochra, ocher or clay color; purpureus, purple; it is so called because the caps are clay-color and the gills are purple.
This drawing, however, is backed, not with black chalk as previously cited, but with ocher tempera.
Although surely used for tracing, this gives perhaps even more evidence of his use of a black ground rather than white, although ocher lines would show on either.
Fine clay or ocher made up into balls, used for marking sheep.
A kind of ocherwhich is used in some parts of England in marking sheep.
Remainder of underparts ranging from near (a) Olive Ocher to Ochraceous Buff and Pale Orange Yellow.
Brussels Brown rather than near (16 j) Buckthorn Brown to near (h) Yellow Ocher color of upper parts and basilar length of less than 45 in males; from M.
Antique Brown color of upper parts rather than Buckthorn Brown or near (16 j) Buckthorn Brown to near (h) Yellow Ocher respectively; from M.
Antique Brown rather than near (16 j) Buckthorn Brown to near (h) Yellow Ocher color of upper parts.
Remainder of underparts ranging from near (a) Olive Ocher to near (16') Ochraceous Buff.
Defn: Fine clay or ocher made up into balls, used for marking sheep.
A metallic oxide occurring in earthy form; as, tungstic ocher or tungstite.
Defn: A kind of ocherwhich is used in some parts of England in marking sheep.
The sky wore an ocher hue against which the branches quivered in zigzags of blackness.
The sad ocher merged into a somber blue; the stars came out, one by one, then in shoals.
In the sallow light her face, the ocher wallpaper, the light oak center-table, the matting on the floor, and the small tin trunk were of a color.
Behind it ran a great breadth of knee-high stubble, blazing ocher and cadmium in the sunlight.
When the wheat rolls across the foreground in ocherand burnished copper waves, it is more wonderful still.
Their blue duck clothing and bare brown arms appeared among the white and ocher tinting of the grass that seemed charged with brightness, and the sounds of their activity came up to her.
He glanced at the Lancashire sandhills, which were fading into a pale ocher gleam amid the haze over the starboard hand, and then at the long row of painted buoys that moved back to them.
Broad avenues of sod sewn with the seed of the ocher vegetation of the dead sea bottoms carried the noiseless traffic of light and airy ground fliers that are the only form of artificial transportation used north of the gigantic ice-barrier.
Mineral paints (except umber, sienna, andocher from France and Spain).
This partial view of the fight scene shows that all contours were drawn in ocher paint, and inside surfaces were painted in ocher and buff.
The first stripe is ocher along the flourishes and the second stripe is buff along the ocher stripe, with a row of white dots at the junction of the two colours.
Red ocher was abundant in small granules throughout the site and appeared more frequently in the burial areas, but not to the extent as to class an interment as being a red-ocher burial in the traditional meaning or even as a burial marker.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ocher" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
