Mask and hands from the tumulus Kröll-Schmidt Kogel in Kleinklein, Austria. They were metal decorations of a wooden urn for ashes collected after cremation. Bronze Sheet. Height mask 23 cm, hands 15 cm. iron Age, 10th-6th Century BCE.
If I called it Big Eyes that is because it bears resemblance to other items under this tag, be it “eyes” or “ears”:
The valley’s rice paddies are scattered with mysterious ancient megaliths. Locals call this one “Palindo”—"the entertainer". Bada Valley, Sulawesi, Indonesia. © Jackson A. Helms IV. Bada Valley is surrounded by the forested mountains of Lore Lindu National Park.
Tsagaglalal (She Who Watches) looks down on the Columbia River from the basalt cliffs which she is a part of. Put there by Coyote to look after her people at Her own request, She is there still. She Who Watches is part of the ancient Columbia River Legends, which are some 10,000 years old. The bullet holes are vandalism from the late 1800's when a traveler in a passing train shot at She Who Watches as target practice. Photo credit: John Nelson. Public Domain.
Fig. 36. (Left) Bright plasma instabilities, top to bottom, increasing luminance. (Right) Petroglyphs. Some show the entire body including the trifurcated base.
Fig. 33. (Left) Configuration and cross-sectional views of the intense current discharge as viewed obliquely to the plasma column. At times, two or more toroids are seen in line-of-sight emission. (Right) Petroglyphs.
Malagan display mask, Northern New Ireland, Papua New Guinea, probably 19th century. Collection of Valerie Franklin. Via Hali.
Eye figurines from the Eye Temple in Tell Brak. PD by Helvetiker via Wikimedia Commons. Original caption reads: Schaffhausen, Museum zu Allerheiligen, Sammlung Ebnöther, (Abteilung "Idole") Zwei Augenidole, links: Kalkstein (Höhe 19,3 cm), rechts: Alabaster (Höhe: 4,6 cm), aus Syrien, 2. Hälfte des 4. Jahrtausend vor Christus; genaue Provenienz nicht angegeben; solche Idole wurden lt. Katalog gefunden in Tepe Gaura und im Augentempel von Tell Brak (Katalog 1999, S. 22).
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