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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;all_fakes, post: 1452297, member: 55&quot;]If there was any carving the knife-marks should be pretty obvious.&nbsp; I don&#039;t see any.</p><p>There is a long tradition in the orient of saving natural roots or stones and using them as scholar&#039;s objects, for gazing or meditation. And many a beachcomber in the US has saved and varnished a piece of root or driftwood just because it looked interesting.</p><p>If there was carving, I&#039;d expect it to actually look like something; to actually look like a dog, rather than allowing one to imagine that it might look a bit like a dog.</p><p>&quot;pareidolia - the perception of apparently significant patterns or recognizable images, especially faces, in random or accidental arrangements of shapes and lines.&quot;</p><p>I&#039;d say it looks like a dog, or a dragon, or a monkey, in exactly the same way a cloud or rock might look like any of those things - without having been carved.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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