Charl
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I've shown this many times, thinking it was a turtle effigy or maybe a fertility fetish. I display it just as the auction did. But the auction described it as a frog, which I never understood. Until last night, when a friend saw it for the first time and said: "hey, this IS a frog!!". What were the eyes of the turtle is the nostrils of the frog, and the unexplained round lumps at the base of the turtle's head are in fact the raised eyes of a frog!! And what was a recess behind the turtle's head is actually the underside of the frog's chin. And his front legs are in the position where they are poised to hop!! 5 years it took to see the frog, though a case might be made that it could be viewed from two different perspectives, making it a dual effigy. First, here is how I used to look at it. Then I will post photos of the "correct"(?) perspective.
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