She had little hands, little bird bones under baby-soft skin.

Some fossil bird bones about 5-4.5 million years old have also been found here.

On the floor the bird bones trembled as if an animating spirit had returned to them.

"It might put a little weight on those bird bones of hers, and she always eats her dinner," she said.

The cold, thin fingers felt delicate as bird bone.

The problem with pinning broken bird bones is that they're hollow and metal pins can't hold them together.

Here I sit, my body frail as bird bones.

They had flutes made of bird bones, hollowed out and pierced.

The last objects were three small tubes made of hollow bird bones.

For awls to punch holes, they fell back on bird bones.