IMAX adventures, part the second

[Steve]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, "susanbones2003" <rdas at f...> wrote:

> > On Jan 3, 2006, at 8:02 AM, HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com wrote:
> > 
> > > The first time MN uses an architectural object to orient us,
> > > it is the carving on the bow of the Durmstrang ship, (please 
> > > someone tell me what that is called. I just spent 30 
> > > fruitless minutes trying to google it!), it looks like a 
> > > bird of prey (Viktor reference perhaps).
>
>
> > TC:
> > 
> > the figurehead? Is that what you mean?
> > 
> > tc
> >

> Pray tell is it often in the form of a woman's upper torso? I
> couldn't find a diagram that showed such a carving. I am assuming
> it was something found on pirate ship? Share if you know.
> Jen D
>

bboyminn:

Indeed 'Figurehead' is the correct term, unless it is carved to look
like the narrow end of a violin and then it is called a fiddlehead.

Figurehead - 2. Nautical. A carved figure on the prow of a ship.

Fiddlehead - 1. Nautical. A curved, scroll-like ornamentation at the
top of a ship's bow that resembles the neck of a violin. 

Examples:

http://seagifts.com/seagifts/shipfig.html

http://seagifts.com/seagifts/baudladshipf.html

http://members.tripod.com/~shipcarve/

http://gonewengland.about.com/od/ctsightseeing/ss/aamysticseaport_8.htm

Just passing it along.

Steve/bboyminn