Hand Sculpture

The thing that puzzled me about this sculpture and the reason i took the photo of it was how out of place it was in the shop on the Gold Coast. Here's a guy who makes dolphins, sea creatures, and other tourist friendly pieces of work and then right out the front he pops a stone carving of the "got your nose" hand gesture.

Is this a long lost Greek Myth, where Hercules smites his enemies by taking their nose?

In Indonesia this is actually as rude as raising your middle finger (which is not offensive in SE Asia) I think means to have sex?

Any way you look at it it seems weird and would be better placed in the back shelve at a sex shop in Canberra.