Mushrooms and not-shrooms...
The march of the mushroom folk continues.
Starting out, we have a variety of figures with foliage spears. An archetypical form is found below, its spear tipped with purple poison. Green liquid oozes from the spots on the cap.
Below, six mushroom, all with weapons in various states of repair, prepare for leaf-blade battle. Each is equipped with a twisted green spear made of grass.
The top left mushroom we've seen already. The middle two are rather plain. The top one has a stronger curved cap (and broken spear), while the bottom one has a green splotch on top of its cap and a better maintained stabbing implement. The bottom left mushroom has the longest spear by far and once strode upon stilts. On the top right, this mushroom is unique in having four arms, though only one has a tipped spear at the moment. The bottom left has the most complicated spear, with two spikes jutting out the bottom.
Two more spearmen mushroom are seen below, each from two angles. The left one looks unremarkable from the front (other than missing a spear and an arm). But looking at it from the side reveals a remarkable feature. It has on its back a pouch with a miniature mushroom in it. A mushroom caretaker on patrol?
The right one has a dark-colored spear in good condition, nothing special there. Again, when looking at it from the side, we see a harness with a rising green vine that has been broken off. What was the purpose of this harness? Glider? Mountain climbing? Some mysteries are lost to the broken clay-pile of time.
Moving on, we have mushroom in form but not function. The left one is a mushroom statue made of wood and rocks. Spots on the cap have been messily added with red paint. The right one is a statue made from bronze, set up with arms outstretched in an enclosed grotto. Mushroom worship? The gods of the mushrooms will be pleased. They will send soft rain and rotting logs.
Finally, we have what may be the most bizarre clay figures we've seen thus far. Mushroom dolls. Colorful cloth is stitched together and stuffed with cotton to approximate the form of a mushroom. The bottom left figure even has a zipper (see the additional picture below).
It gets weirder. At least one of these dolls is actually a real mushroom folk disguised as a fake mushroom. Notice how in the top left figure, there is a cutout on the cap revealing a green patch? Yep, real mushroom under there.
We're not done on the weird, there is yet another layer. The top right figure has green arms and legs that look like they are real mushroom limbs poking out. However, that is just a clever trick. It is a fake mushroom made to look like a real mushroom pretending to be a fake mushroom. It's like inception, but with mushrooms. Mush-ception.
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| Backside of bottom left figure |
Bonus:
Here is a trio of white-colored mushroom folk. The leftmost is a mummy, while the middle and right ones are icy. The rightmost one is so frozen, it has chunks of ice sticking to it.
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