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The objects include stone knives with handles made of grass resin sheathed in paperbark bound with string.

Sergeant Ruiz and other officers tangled with Mr. Bonawitz, who is 6 feet 6 inches tall and weighs nearly 300 pounds, before confiscating an eight-inch knife he had sheathed on his hip, prosecutors said.

The room is now lighter and brighter, with walls sheathed in rippling beech wood and the stage clad in white oak.

It would replace the crumbling J. Edgar Hoover Building in downtown Washington, which is sheathed in netting to shield passers-by from falling concrete.

“My real self was like a kernel of corn sheathed in yards of concrete - as insulated as the nuclear material at Chernobyl.”