Collectors prize the ancient life-size clay statues of human figures made on Kali Island but have long wondered how Kalinese artists were able to depict bodies with such realistic precision.

When Schiavone's final shot went long, li na fell to the clay with her arms extended and looked up at her player's box, where her husband, whom she fired as coach earlier this year, applauded.

Stretched naked on a long table lay the body of Henry Armstrong, the head defiled with blood and clay from a blow with a spade.