Strange Statues

The Strange Statues are five specific salt statues that can be found in specific stages of the game. There are two in Anger and three in Bargaining.

Breaking all five earns you the Bite the dust achievement.

Anger

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Overview
The salt statues are objects that first appear when beginning Anger. They can all be seen in various states of distress; some of them looking up into the distance, others weeping into their hands, others clutching at their heads.

Prompting Enu to touch these statues will cause them to break. Completing Bargaining without breaking a single salt statue will earn you the Without a trace achievement.

Strangely enough, the Strange Statues do not release the purple smoke when broken, but instead break down into a cloud of ash.

It's implied that the Shades also found throughout Anger and Bargaining eventually spawn from these statues, as suggested by a mural found in Bargaining depicting this exact scenario. Enu can also be seen briefly turning into a salt statue before being reborn as a Shade.

Trivia

 * The fact that there are five strange statues may be another allusion to the game being an allegory for the five stages of grief.
 * The salt statue could be a reference to the biblical tale of Lot's wife, who when fleeing the city of Sodom with her family, looked back towards the city despite the angel's warnings not to do so and was turned into a pillar of salt upon doing so.