Memoir of Charles Henry Porter by E. Goodrich Smith, 1849, with Wooly Mammoth Endpaper Drawing silver charm with all sorts of different

with all sorts of different ways one can configure the blocks to form the cube

with carved out window on the front of the coffin revealing the face of the figure--and the face

with what look to be arrows extended in different directions and a sort of bird-like form rendered in unglazed clay

and the others of which are attached to the wrists

while she stares straight ahead directly at the camera

Memoir of Charles Henry Porter by E. Goodrich Smith, 1849, with Wooly Mammoth Endpaper Drawing silver charm with all sorts of differentI am forever opening old books in hopes of finding drawings on the end papers so a happy surprise to find this one, which I take for a drawing of a wooly mammoth. Perhaps it was a bit later that the graphite drawing was enhanced with ink, I'm not sure but I really love the inked arrow at lower right, pointing out the snake wrapped around the tree! Perhaps that snake is signaling things to come, but in the meantime our mammoth seems a very serene