Showing posts with label mystery item. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mystery item. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 18, 2012

The Nose Knows, or Does It?

Sorry about the lack of a Monday Rambles for this week.  I'll be sure to have one for nest week.  Last week was sooooooo busy that I just did not have time to take notes like I usually do for that post.  This week should be much calmer.

In the meantime,  maybe you can help me with a mystery.  What are these?



They're made out of stone and very heavy.  The question is, why would anyone make noses out of stone?  What are they supposed to represent?



I thought they might  be some kind of tiki thing, but they're marked "Made in Kenya" on the bottom.  I don't recall a tiki tradition in Kenya.  Googling "Kenya stone noses" gets me nowhere.  "Kenya stone carvings" brings up a lot of sites, but I can't find a match and much of it is soapstone, which this most definitely is not.

Thoughts?  Ideas?  Suggestions?