Around the room, women were comforting one another as despondent face found despondent face.
It's a big round golden loaf of bread complete with the smiley face found on so many children's drawings of the sun.
In 1936, German mountaineer Toni Kurz, during an ill-fated attempt to climb the Swiss Alps' Eiger's north face, found himself dangling from rope with his fellow teammate's lifeless body weighing him down.
His homage to Joseph Cornell, for example, takes the essential components of one of Cornell's enigmatic boxes – weathered wood, a plain white watch face, found bric-a-brac, a print of a cockatoo – and produces his own version.
(There is also a photograph of the largest sculpture found in the pits, a 13-foot-high bronze tree.) Narrow, almost columnar in form, the figure has the same slightly spectral face found on the smaller masks in the vestibule, but here the head is topped by a patterned pillbox crown.
The picture of a 3,000-year-old 3,000-year-old 3,000-year-oldwith its haft stilatettached engenders the same degree of thrill as the domino-sized stone figure found at Ness, the earliest depiction of a human face found in bronzen.
