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bone carving

folk art of carving designs in animal bones, teeth, horns, or antlers, or making figures or implements from these materials
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bone carving

Summary

bone carving ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (175 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • bone carving is a type of folk art[2].
  • bone carving is a type of art of sculpture[3].
  • bone carving's Commons category is recorded as Art made from bone[4].
  • bone carving's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Bone carvings[5].
  • bone carving's practiced by is recorded as Q4235503[6].

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Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include folk art[2] and art of sculpture[3].

Why It Matters

bone carving ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (175 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 7 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[7] It is known by 4 alternative names across languages and contexts.[8]

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . Encyclopædia Britannica. wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [7] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [8] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 3d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Aliases → —
    Subclass of → folk art, art of sculpture
    Subclass of → —
    Topic's main category → Category:Bone carvings
    + 1 other property edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|12 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 11920, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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