The confusion over where you get violet is a curious historical artifact.

I have never smoked, but I thought it might someday be a curious cultural anthropological artifact for my grandchildren.

She joined him at the counter, where she discovered two curious artifacts, neither of which she could immediately identify.

"The town where we lived and worked was a curious artifact of our time," he says.

Acacia turned and pointed to the woman who had found the curious artifact.

Outside the temple there are two very curious artifacts.

He paves the way for this curious artifact in an introduction.

How many people knew or cared how these curious artifacts were actually manufactured?

A ballplayer's individual baseball proficiency is in these television days at best a curious artifact.

There were other curious artifacts: strange weapons and even stranger hats from far parts of the world.