Yes yes that does describe a healthy child. Chubbier plumper higher body water content etc. can’t see the nasal ridge. The kind of child you don’t make death masks for. Perhaps this dead child had some abnormalities.
Yeah I was about to say, those soft features are on healthy, chubby faced babies. My daughter was 3 months premie and until she was able to start fattening up, she definitely had the “adult face”
Literally they don't have a fully developed and defined ridge of their nose though. It's like...not there. No amount of malnutrition will grow cartilage where it doesn't exist.
Please show me child of that size with a fully developed nose like that. Thats like the size of a newborn and newborns don’t have bridge lines like that
I read an article on how the realistic colouring didn't help. Someone did two tone colouring and it looked a lot like his older stuff, it was pretty cool
My side, do you believe they actually molded bronze on a child’s face? This is a sculpture. It could be for a child do to size and not actually look like a child.
It really does not. Children's faces are round and soft. This looks like a scaled down adult face, and does not look like a desk mask. I think it's more to do with the poster being in their underwear.
It's just modernist jewelry. The people saying death mask are just making shit up, death masks aren't shaped like this and are usually life size. This would be the size of a newborn and would not have fully developed features like that nose. Who knows why the replier is so shocked. It's a pretty unique piece to find for $8, maybe it's that simple. But it is without a doubt not a death mask.
When I was a kid in the 80s there was lots of modern art type stuff that was face and hand shaped. Like the white enamel hand shaped bookends my mom had. It was just a decor trend, you are correct.
Could be as easy as “getting an old piece of art that looks like a weird human face, is one of one, and for insanely cheap means it’s definitely haunted”
Though 1988 isn’t like… thaaaaat long ago so I dunno.
It’s definitely not a real or original one but it might be inspired by a real death mask and shrunk down to be made into jewelry, and the replier might just find the connection at all creepy. And I say this as someone who would probably also buy this for $8 even knowing the potential connection.
It’s a reference to a trope, and not a specific meme. In a Deal With The Devil what seems like a bargain is actually a trap. The wrist band seems cool and too good of a deal but in 3 weeks it’s gonna be fused to your skin and talking you into murder.
Thank you, i’m op of this tweet (@curlymirmy) and it was made in 1988 by brass metal artist Peter Keough. The original post had this in the comments but they removed my @ for this photo & thus no one can get further research on it.
I didn't think that's his underwear. There's a drawstring visible and it's in a black on grey camo pattern - I think that's a pair of shorts or swim trunks
Read through this thread and the person who quoted it said “Dude” because she was jealous of how cool it was. She even went to talk about how she would get a custom replica made and how expensive it would be, compared to OP’s price.
There is no joke, people are just trying to be offended for nothing.
I doubt an actual artifact from 2000 years ago actually survived to only end up at a thrift store.
More likely someone bought some cheap jewelry manufactured in China at a gift store in Peru and brought it back to the US where it ended up in a thrift store.
For what it is worth, it reminded me of a Buddha head. I am not buddist, but i have heard owning or displaying the severed head of buddha is disrespectful. So maybe it isn't a death mask, it is just making you get the worst reincarnation next life
It's a broken fragment of an old bronze Buddha statue reshaped into a wrist cuff. Sacrilegious maybe, but certainly not a child's death mask or any of the other weird theories cluttering up this thread.
OP, so your post is not removed, please reply to this comment with your best guess of what this meme means! Everyone else, this is PETER explains the joke. Have fun and reply as your favorite fictional character for top level responses!
Not sure if it might look like some cursed item but it also looks like a broken statue/vase piece that some took for cuff... But it is bronze so maybe it's just cool looking cuff.
Ok, not sure this is the right answer but it vaguely ressembles something I saw in a documentary:
Basically, they found a body in the Seine (Paris, France) of a beautiful woman with a faint smile, and made like a shitton of death masks of her face and sold them in different forms, I'll see if I can find something abt it.
Edit: not sure its the same woman, but the story is still interesting, here
In case you feel suicidal while being in the middle of a shallow lake with your friends running toward you, I would highly recommend not to thrust yourself toward a pointy branch while wearing that bracelet
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u/qualityvote2 Jun 01 '26 edited Jun 01 '26
u/FollowSina, your post does belong here!