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in·cise (n-sz)
v.
To cut into with a sharp instrument.


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In 1994, Joseph's daughter Rosemary Apple Blossom Lonewolf, who had won a $5,000 National Endowment for the Arts grant to further her work in ceramics, told The New Mexican that her father was the first Native potter to move outside the tradition of incising geometric designs into miniature pots, developing a sgraffito convention based on realistic depictions of animals.
The bone contains "the unmistakable incising of an ancient proboscidean (elephant)," she said.
For example, incising is demonstrated with Styrofoam and a dull pencil.
 
 
 
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