fussy or fuzzy?
The heads are carved in the same way as the Dotted Eye Style but the nose of the
animals is emphasized by a drill hole indicating the end of the nose (as in the Oval Head
Variant). The composition is very different in this variant however; whole or partial animals
are scattered indiscrimently over the entire field. A5q704Oi is a good example. The animal
heads are large (as in Dotted Eye?) and because of the way they are carved prominent, the
bodies are formed around one or two drill holes (eg one for the scorpion). Most of all the
composition is a scatter of figures in different directions and made up of some descrete
figures (sometimes linked in confused ways) as well as parts of figures; both animals and
geometric designs are found in an incoherent overall compositional pattern.
Another good example is A5.180.an animal combat scene. The body of the caprid is
full but the legs are very linear, the bulbous nose is out of proportion with the face. The
horns are not a clear linear pattern but have some unclear curved lines associated with them.
On the other hand the lion has a face in outline with a large dotted eye in the center. His
open mouth is a thicker line than his head. The figure in the homed cap on the end of the
scene carries a long weapon and is shown by a large nose. He may be holding the tail of the
lion. To the left is a seated figure but its relationship to the rest of the scene is unclear.
A5q704ol is a good example of the disorganized compositions of the Fussy Inin
Shadu style. While the finest examples of the original style arc an elaborately interlocked
pattern which at the same time highlights the individual figures (as opposed to the ED III
animal combat scenes which emphasize the interlocking of the figures in the pattern at the
expense of the individual figures) this example with its unclear mixture of humans and
animals and parts of animals is at the opposite extreme. There is also a mixture ot puffy, budging forms with the characteristically extreme linear heads wit hdotted eyes.
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