Very Old, Very Primitive Hand-card Figure with Marvelous Face jointed donkey just about exactly 200 year

just about exactly 200 year ago

while simultaneously fortified through their (smiling) presences

his focus was on the Redwood forests and hills

ready to hang from the hole at top

I've had one other old toy mold in this shop similar in construction to this birdy--which I just found along with a pig

Very Old, Very Primitive Hand-card Figure with Marvelous Face jointed donkey just about exactly 200 yearI don't know the origins of this one, but clearly it is quite old, the wood worn very smooth, and with some remnants of a sort of bittersweet paint visible on both the head and the body. The carving of the lower body suggests it might once have slide inside of something else, or perhaps was wrapped in cloth perhaps a fertility fetish figure of sorts. Whatever the case, to my eye it doesn't get much better than that very primitively carved face. And