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My Mysterious Rock

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I have always been interested in odd things and if I can acquire something very odd I will try and get if, but unfortunately I have to do this on a shoestring. Recently I noticed a rock up for auction. No one was bidding on it so I decided it looked strange enough for me to bid $5.00 on. I got it for that price. Some would say I was crazy and could go to a park and pick up a rock for free, but this rock caught my eye, it seemed to be more than just a rock. I contacted the seller who was an elderly woman and she told me she believed the rock had been used by Native Americans in some of their ceremonies and it could be old. She seemed to think if you turned it certain ways it looked like faces and other things had been carved on it. I couldn’t tell that much since I only saw it in photos, but the rock seemed very interesting.


Animal Head
Skull

You will notice in the photos above one could conceive it looked like an animal from a certain angle. The first photo does look like some kind of animal head, perhaps a skeletal one. It sort of reminds me of a dog, horse or some other type of animal with a long face. The surface on the side seems to have been chipped out to form this feature. The seam running down the width of what looks like a head to me makes it look like a mouth. At this point I should give you the dimensions of the rock. It is approximately 3 inches wide when viewed in the position of the first photo and about 1 Β½ inches high.
The photo in the middle shows something I almost missed. If you look hard at the right side of the rock it seems there is the remains of a skeletal head and it looks human. I couldn’t help but wonder if I was letting my eyes play tricks on me. It reminded me of all those things one thinks they see when they look at a field of rocks. It certainly looked like a skeleton head to me, but I have to wonder if it looks this way to others?

Body
Duck Head

When I looked at one side of the rock I couldn’t help but feel I was looking at some distorted statue of a person with one arm at their side and another with their hand covering their face. I know ancient people carved some very unusual figures and I have a couple, but again was this just what my brain wanted me to see? It almost looked like a human figure coming out of half an egg shell. The next photo which was taken from the top and back resembles a duck head or something similar. This really got me thinking, because of the amount of figures I found on the rock.

I decided it was time to study the rock under a microscope so I spent the next few hour checking out the rock from every angle and that is when I found some very interesting things out about the rock which made me think the lady who had told me the rock had been used in Native American ceremonies was correct.

Paint Chip
Paint Chip

 

One of the first things I discovered about the rock was it had a blue paint chip on it. It was small, but it was there. This made me think it must have been painted at one time and most of the paint had worn off. There were also a few threads on the rock but I attributed this to the packing material the rock came in. Finding the paint chip got me excited and made me wonder how long people had been using this rock in services.

Silver Nodule
Silver Nodule
Silver Nodule


The next thing I found was a tiny silver nodule embedded in the rock. Check it out in the second photo and tell me if you can see a face on it, it looked like one to me. If it was a face it was a work of art and very hard to do on such a tiny nodule.Β  I have no idea what type of rock this is or if silver can appear in it naturally.


Strange Rings
Strange Rings



As I was examining the rock further under the microscope I found a strange ring formation. I have never seen anything like this before on a rock. It doesn’t look natural to me, but not being an expert I have no way of knowing if it is. The rings are very intriguing. If they aren’t natural, one has to wonder what their purpose was.


White Paint Chip


More paint chips only this time they were white.


Yellow Paint Chip
Yellow Paint Chip


Lastly I found a yellow paint chip.

I don’t know how many of you are convinced this rock was used in ceremonies, but I have found enough proof to convince me it was special. I just wish I knew the age.

 

 

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