The creator of the work shown (NOT our required work, the Ambum Stone), which is from Neolithic Papua New Guinea, carved the top into an elongated, rounded shape most likely to suggest the: - head and upper body of an animal, conforming to the shape of a handle - upright posture of a standing human, reflecting the vertical form of a stele - shape of a blossom whose stem forms a palette used for mixing pigments - curved top of a threshing flail whose handle ends in a scepter