hand stencil
Traced finger silhouette
A hand stencil is an image made by placing a hand against a surface and applying pigment around it, leaving a negative outline when the hand is removed.
The technique appears in prehistoric cave art worldwide, from France to Indonesia to Argentina: The cave walls were covered with hand stencils in red ochre.
Distinguished from a handprint, which is a positive impression made by coating the hand itself with pigment.
- caveUnderground hollow in rock
- cave paintingPrehistoric art on stone
- rock artImages on natural stone
- palmHand's flat interior
- prehistoricBefore documented civilization
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- Aboriginal artifactsboomerang, boomerangs, didgeridoo, didgeridoos, spear thrower
- Pacific IndigenousDreamtime, didgeridoo, boomerang, corroboree, Maori
hand stencilhand print
Mark from pressed palm
handprint · hand stamp · palm print · fingerprint · latent print
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