Very Old, Very Primitive Hand-card Figure with Marvelous Face white bird like a cheerful cottage on

like a cheerful cottage on a rainy day

I think the prowling posture is 100% perfect cat

Smaller 3" across and  5/16" thick

making it in many senses all about its materiality

with incised round eyes on either side of the head and a shell pattern on his back

Very Old, Very Primitive Hand-card Figure with Marvelous Face white bird like a cheerful cottage onI 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