I will begin my description with the more incomplete, distal figure because it is so obvious that this piece is in a preliminary stage of production. While it is possible that this could have been intended to become a male figure, the sculptor left sufficient, but not a surplus of volume in the chest and abdominal areas to accomodate a classic pregnant female morphology. In my opinion the main reason that the possibility of a male figure has been entertained is because none of the classic female attributes, which on the Russian statuettes are always rendered in detail at the end of the process, had yet been worked on before the piece was cached away.
The rough contours of the head, neck and upper chest have been disengaged, first by something akin to adzing, then by scraping, which has left fine incisions (Figure 6). The surface of the lower chest shows chatter-marks and longitudinal facets (Figure 7), as does the entire circumference of this piece in this highly unfinished zone. There is not even the slightest trace of arms, which in most of the Kostienki/Avdeevo culture statuettes were a surface detail added (gouged) quite late in the process.
The margin between the upper and lower abdomen has been deeply incised by transverse cutting (Figure 8). A pubic swelling has been left (Figure 8). As is usual for Kostienki/Avdeevo Culture statuettes, there are no vulvar details. Sediment covers the surface of the incision separating the legs. Due to a transverse, mended break immediately below the pubic triangle, I cannot say whether the lower margins of the buttocks were sketched out; but no trace of the upper margins exists.
The lower legs end in a spatulate form which has already been given rough form by a curved, transverse incision/ledge on the back of the piece. On the front of the piece the ledge has merely been roughed out by a strong transverse gouge (Figure 9). Below this ledge on the back of the legs, gouging (significant marks) and whittling have smoothed the contours. The tabular end of the piece, beyond the lower limits of the "feet," broadens out again somewhat, forming a perfect grip between the thumb and index finger.