 However, this may be a modern misconception as there is evidence that the sculptures were originally brightly painted.A majority of the figurines are female, depicted nude, and with arms folded across the stomach, typically with the right arm held below the left.Most writers who have considered these artifacts from an anthropological or psychological viewpoint have assumed that they are representative of a Great Goddess of nature, in a tradition continuous with that of Neolithic female figures such as the Venus of Willendorf.