A bird in one's hand

It has the shape of a bird , specially the feathers in the back. The head is round and there is no beak, which is a bit of a puzzle. It stands on its belly.

It fits in my hand giving the wonderful feeling that whoever did this knew how a bird in one's hand would  weigh and feel.

Bas-relief

This is the first one and it is bigger than anything I have found so far.21/2 x 4 "

A couple of new faces

There is a notch done for the mouth, a common recurrence.

This next one has a fossil used for the mouth.

Then a line drawn deeply for it.

A small ball of clay was added for a nose. Very clownlike. It made me laugh!
Humor spanning generations...

Some comments any old how

-The rocks I have found are small and fit in my hand. They fit in my pocket and there is, most of the time, a rock of the day. I put it in my pocket, turn it during the day, pull it out and look at it several times. It's a companion and I am led to believe that these rocks were companions too.
- The images are many times not visible at first sight- they are on the side or hidden or very small.
- Some rocks stand by themselves. At first I thought they were meant to be on a ledge somewhere...I don't know now.
- A couple show a turned neck, a movement. There is nothing stiff about that design.

- Several faces on one little stone. The most I counted was 14. The thought came by that this could be a game, let's see who can carve the most images on a little stone or a game of guess what it is/ guess what's next.
- The light is most important. In one light, oh! this is amazing! in another, where is it?
- A tree at 6 am is different than a tree at 6 pm even though we know it is the same tree. Maybe in the same way, a rock was seen as different or having a life of its own because of the different angles of light throughout the day.    
- Sometimes, a color, a texture, a certain marking on the rock is used in the image. Not always.
- For the longest time, I struggled with the idea of such artwork being done with rough tools. I am reconciled with the idea of very small tools, little rocks which have a sharp point. At least this is the possiblity of the moment.             

Sticking to observation

Observation is the only thing I can do. There are too many questions , whys, whens, whos, wheres, hows.
When you take a drawing class, one of the first thing you are told is to forget what you think you see and to really look, fresh, like you would see a tree for example for the first time. Then you realize that the tree is not just green like you thought it was but it has lots of colors and shapes with the light playing on its leaves.
It is a challenge. Once I gave myself the goal of believing what I see. It came to a point recently of" what if I see something I don't like, or something scary? what if I see faces with elongated heads and I can't explain it?, what if...?"
I can only look, feel, observe, name what comes to me.

This, to me, is a delicate view of a horse or other, turning its head to peck at the fur in its neck. Beautiful.

One eye open, one eye closed

In several samples, I have noticed the same pattern of one eye open, one eye closed, or one side of the face of a live person, the other of a skull. The theme of life and death.

Noses

There is a wide variety of noses in all the faces I have found. It is an observation. From Mayan noses ( given away by their animal headdresses), to E.Ts to Parisian noses, this is a wide range! I didn't expect that. I thought they would be all American Indian noses. What do we know!