When wells are dug in Bengal, a wooden imageof a god is made and married to the goddess of water.
Thus among the Bataks of Sumatra a barren woman, who would become a mother, will make a wooden image of a child and hold it in her lap, believing that this will lead to the fulfilment of her wish.
So the medicine-man is called in, and sets to work on the sufferer, while the korwar, orwooden image of the spirit who is supposed to be doing all the mischief, stands beside him.
Some people fetch the head of the deceased person, and having made a wooden image with a large head and a hole in the back of it, they insert the skull into the wooden head from behind.
Superstitions are all very well in a way, but a wooden image is a wooden image, after all.
It's there, a wooden Image behind a curtain, down in my stateroom.
Within I found quite elaborate preparations, among which was prominently displayed a wooden image of the great hornbill.
A gong or gutshi strung near the top signifies that the deceased was a person of wealth and prominence, while a wooden image of the rhinoceros hornbill occupies a lofty position on the pinnacle.
This fair stranger must have been the original of Drowne's Wooden Image.
Drowne's Wooden Image" is a charming old Boston version of the artistic miracles made possible by love.
Generally a wooden image of a hawk, BALI FLAKI, stands beside it on the top of a tall pole.
The caste say that their original ancestor was created by Singbonga, the sun, and had five sons, one of whom found a wooden image of their deity in the Baranda forest, near the Barpahari hill in Chota Nagpur.
If a man is killed by a tiger his family make a wooden image of a tiger and worship it.
Prithwi Raj alone declined to attend as a subordinate, and Jaichand therefore made a wooden image of him and set it up at the gate in the part of doorkeeper.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wooden image" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
