Photos of My Mystery Stuff

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Bill Marsh

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I have a few oddball items collected over the years that I am posting for people to guess what they are, or what they COULD BE?

What country? Culture? Age?

Post your guesses.........

Object one -- about two inches long Has been identified see posts below Tiger Tooth

Object two -- about six inches long Han Dynasty (about 2000 years old) Bronze sword handle. The Chinese loved their bronze swords so much that when they realized iron was better for a blade, they cast an iron blade in a bronze handle. The iron blades have long since rusted away, but there are a lot of handles left.

Object three -- about 4 inches long Papua New Guinea Penis cover. They just covered the tip

Object four -- about 2.5 inches high Has been identified see posts below Tibetan Skull bead carved from the ball end of an arm bone (humeris) or a leg bone (femur)
 
Object 5 -- about seven inches high -- also guess what it is made from? Nepalese Hill People (Tamung) mask made from a giant mushroom

Object 6 -- about 5 inches long Dayak headhunter ear ring made from a hornbill bird skull / casque. Given to a man who had collected a human head

Object 7 -- about 8 inches long Nepalese Butter Churn piece. Held the churn rod through the opening. the square end was tied to something to secure it while the person made butter. By the way there is no such thing as Yak butter. Yaks are male. Dri are the females.
 
I think some of those things fell out of Munk's couch when he moved it outide.

Mike L.
 
Object 8 -- about 2 inches high (should be rotated 90 degrees to vertical) Sumo Frog Netsuke (bronze)

Object 9 -- about 5'6" high -- oops, wait, that is Anne using a wheelbarrow to move a table My darling wife!

Object 10 -- A real mystery -- about 4.5 inches long Hinged Ethiopian Ear Pick, of course! How could you not recognise it! For removing wax from ears. "Huh, what did you say?"
 
Object 11 -- about two inches high Has been identified see posts below. Tibetan Amulet or Thogcha

Object 12 -- about four inches long Correctly identified by Kamkazmoto as a Buddhist Dorje

Object 13 -- about five inches longest dimension Correctly identified by Mike L and Jurassicnarc44 as a Megalodon prehistoric shark tooth fossil. They are not sure how big this critter was. But it ate Great White sharks whole from one account. Jaws could open over six feet in diameter
 
Object 14 -- nine inches in longest dimension by far the oldest man made item here (should be rotated 90 degrees to vertical) Pre-Columbian Valdivia stone about 2,000 to 1,000 BC years old. Like most Pre-Columbian artifacts it was buried as a tomb artlcle. Since most cultures had no or little written language we may never know the meaning of these pieces.

http://www.indianartifacts.com/cer-p01.htm

Object 15 -- about two inches high (should be rotated 90 degrees to vertical) Danny-in-Japan called it close. It is a Pre-Columbian Shaman in Flight. Possibly ear ornament or pendant. Early country of Columbia Calima culture circa 200BC - 100AD
http://mag.leftcoastart.com/html/precolumbian_gold.html

Object 16 and 17, waiting inside the door for Anne to come back (the door opens inward). The word that they hate to hear is "STAY!" Cavalier King Charles Spaniels -- "Tucker" brown and white (Coloration called "Blenheim" --- and "Chumley" Tricolor (Black, white and brown, coloration called "Prince Charles." Basically worthless for anything but lap dogs and companions. First small dogs I ever had and we really love them. Rarely bark, don't chew on anything, won't even eat our food if we leave it unguarded on our coffee table.
 
#13 is a fossilized shark's tooth.

I stand by my previous statement on some of the other stuff! :)

Mike L.
 
Bill I am too polite to tell you what number five looks like it is made from ! Lead on McDuff . I thought one of them was a Stone from an animal .
 
Mike L. said:
#13 is a fossilized shark's tooth.

I stand by my previous statement on some of the other stuff! :)

Mike L.
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Mike's right....the tooth, if five inches long, is from Megaladon....the ancestor of the Great White and about the size of a city bus. And #13 is also the oldest by far.
 
Kevin the grey said:
Bill I am too polite to tell you what number five looks like it is made from ! Lead on McDuff . I thought one of them was a Stone from an animal .
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It is not made from Yak, Dri, Buffalo or Cow Poop. But it really looks like it. Not a stone of any kind. But it is from an organic material. Not poop, though. That is what people usually guess.
 
kamkazmoto said:
number 12 is a Buddhist Dojre or Thunderbolt. It is one of the main symbols of Buddhism
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Right! Dorje. Usually used with a bell. This one and the bell that came with it was used by a traveling Nepalese Buddhist priest. I got this one from a friend in Nepal who bought it from the priest because the priest wanted to replace it with a new one! He did not appreciate the age, useage and patina.
 
Item 4 looks like a seed that has been carved to resemble a little skull...I dunno...these things could have fallen out of the Schweiger couch....


Great thread. Mystery stuff. You gotta love mystery stuff. I'm fifty years Old and the items in this thread belong in a scene where I'm eight and bringing something home after a hard day being a boy...." Look what I found, Mom..."


Thanks for wonderful stuff Bill.



munk
 
Bill Marsh said:
I have a few oddball items collected over the years that I am posting for people to guess what they are, or what they COULD BE?

What country? Culture? Age?

Post your guesses.........

Object one -- about two inches long

Object four -- about 2.5 inches high
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Object one is a tooth that could be bear or one of the large cats, or maybe even a large wolf but I don't think so.

Object two almost looks like a dagger hilt from an old bronze weapon but I wouldn't swear to anything.

Object fourteen could almost be a very old stylized Venus.

And object fifteen I have to disqualify myself on because I've seen it before and know what it is.
DIJ is somewhat close in a way but it ain't an airplane.;) :p ;)

Object four is a carved skull; looks like from bone or horn.
 
The #11 is a statue of Garuda. Half man/half bird. The bottom half of the statue has bird like features. But it has the Dorjé ( diamond scepter) (Vajra) and bell with it, making it a Buddhist version of Garuda "Suparnas" . Used in Tibetan Buddhism and in Nepal (Vajrayana). Looks genuine, old , used in higher secret Tantric rituals of Vajrayana.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garuda


Object # 4 is a tibetan skull necklace. The attachment seems to been broke of the top of the skull. These ritual skulls where made from bone ( sometimes even human bone)
Tibetan monks started carving these centuries ago to remind us that life is temporal, and we must make the most of every day, and practice the right way of living always.
 
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