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Old 10-31-2011, 10:32 AM   #16
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Some of them appear to be stained with blood.
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Old 10-31-2011, 11:55 AM   #17
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The shape of the rocks is pretty uniform. Is there an obvious local source?
All blue eyes.
Simple technique, maybe minutes to produce.
I'd guess a kids' game with no value to prevent disposal in the yard.
By all means, let us know if you find anything more about them.
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Old 10-31-2011, 12:49 PM   #18
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The burying to me suggests the desire to put it out of one's mind, to get rid of it but not in a destructive way. Many forms of therapy suggest turning a stressful event or person into a totem of some sort and physically removing or breaking it to help eliminate the mental fixation. I'm picturing a person--probably a woman--who has a difficult time with anger, or anxiety, and has been taught to habitually "bury" whatever issue is bothering her at a given time. Especially since many of the faces do seem to be repeats.
That's what I said.

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they really are very cool. I'd have some local art person look at them like footy said. They are very...haunting
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Old 10-31-2011, 03:20 PM   #19
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That is so awesome. How very interesting.
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Old 10-31-2011, 04:31 PM   #20
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Yep, but they only started looking happy once we dug them up. When they first emerged they looked pretty frightened and confused.
And with those two sentences you have scared me more than 98% of horror films I have ever watched.

What an amazing and timely IoTD.

Although if this was a film right now I'd be moaning at the screen, "Just move out! Please! Go!"
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Old 10-31-2011, 05:57 PM   #21
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Rock face



My daughter created this one when she was a little girl, I keep it in the flower bed and think of her when I see it.
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Old 10-31-2011, 05:57 PM   #22
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The shape of the rocks is pretty uniform. Is there an obvious local source?
Definitely not from the farm itself, but we're not far from the coast, and I'm pretty sure there are stones like that on the beaches.

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Do the words Wolf Creek mean anything to you?
We live in Fish Creek!

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was there a childless woman ever living in the house?
You know, I think the last woman WAS childless. I'll check into that. But most seem like adults, with the smaller ones more like kids.

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I also see more than one race
The stones themselves are grey, and the face side has been painted with a base colour for the skin. They skin colour ranges from a yellowish to a light brown to peach-pink. So I got the impression it was intended to indicate different races too.

Incidentally, the majority seem to be female, but some are definnitely male.

And since you're our IotD gal:
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(Why did the initial post come out wider than the rest of the posts?)
it's because the photo size was too big. I had already reduced it by half, and thought that was enough, but it's still too big.
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Old 10-31-2011, 06:00 PM   #23
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OMG burns334! It's good you know your daughter did that and that it gives you happy memories. If I had found one like that amongst my stones I would truly have seriously considered moving out!
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Old 10-31-2011, 07:53 PM   #24
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Sandy, she was 12 or 13 yrs old and majored in art in college. I looked at your stones as just some child fooling around with paints. I'll show yours to her and see what she thinks. I'm not really sure she remembers the stone I have.

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Old 10-31-2011, 08:08 PM   #25
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She was quite precocious.
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Old 10-31-2011, 09:29 PM   #26
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Wow, whoah, whooooo! Freaky, creepy, yet fascinating.

Building on what Wolf, Brianna and Clod have said, perhaps the mentally ill repressive woman doing symbolic self-psychotherapy was not just childless, but also had had a number of miscarriages.

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Old 10-31-2011, 10:51 PM   #27
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I looked at your stones as just some child fooling around with paints.
They are clearly painted with a brush, and the detail is so steady and fine that I can't see them having been done by a child, even though the style is simplistic.

And hey, it just occurred to me that your daughter put Amy Winehouses's face on the stone! The shadow gives it a nice beehive hairdo.

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before we packed up and headed for home, we hid the finished faces in the house.
But not in a bucket buried in the woodshed or in a bathtub full of soil, I notice.

Sometimes, when I read about some ancient curiosity being dug up, I wonder if it isn't anything significant or mystical at all, and is just something banal that somehow lasted better than other more significant things that were done at the time, e.g. maybe the cavemen kids used more durable paints to draw bison on the cave walls, and the ones the adults did - incredibly realistic ones, or ones with explanatory diagrams, got lost because they preferred to use other paint.
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Old 11-01-2011, 01:24 AM   #28
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The shape of the rocks is pretty uniform. Is there an obvious local source?
Definitely not from the farm itself, but we're not far from the coast, and I'm pretty sure there are stones like that on the beaches.
Your picture shows the well-rounded stones with the faces and angular broken stones in your soil.
Are there any unpainted but rounded stones on the farm? Or are the painted ones the only round ones?

I'm trying to establish whether the person grabbed whatever stones were handy, or went and got stones and brought them home to paint, or went somewhere and painted the stones and brought the finished ones back.
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Old 11-01-2011, 02:28 AM   #29
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Your picture shows the well-rounded stones with the faces and angular broken stones in your soil.
The angular ones you see are in gravel that was placed around that bed. Our land doesn't have many stones in it, certainly none like the round smooth ones. But we're close to the coast and you can find a lot of those round smooth stones there.

I feel compelled to get to the bottom of this now for all of you as well as me! Will do my best in the next few weeks. I think if I phoned locals to ask they would put me on the "weird newcomers" list once and for all - we've only been here for 4 years.
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Old 11-01-2011, 04:44 AM   #30
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This is so interesting! I want to know more!
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