The dance moved on, then, up a green lawn and hill to a large white concrete sculpture shaped like a whale.

Besides hastening it so often for little creatures, he lives with his own coffin, a 12-foot figurative sculpture shaped like a lobster, known in Ghana as a FAV, or fantastic afterlife vehicle.

"Glass," she said, and ducked around a huge sculpture shaped like a half-opened seashell.

To illustrate this, Mr. Bakkom has taken old reels of 35mm movie film and turned them into slick, shiny sculptures shaped like vessels, bells, architectural models and abstract objects.

A sculpture shaped like a hand can be used as a stool.

Among examples on display are ceramics showing traditionally attired Mimbres warriors cruising on a Los Angeles freeway and blown-glass sculptures shaped like ancient Tlingit symbols.

Over the houses, hanging in the water are small sculptures shaped like flowers, boats, doll heads and three hundred glass beads.

It is a neolithic sculpture shaped by an unknown artist.

In the pond, there is a sculpture, shaped like a fairy.

At roughly the time it was painted, another American artist, Louise Bourgeois, was producing phallic sculptures shaped like clubs and needles.