Fantastic Folk Art Lion with Moveable Legs, Long Tail and Bared Teeth! geometric design and I interpret the image

and I interpret the image as a woman's face in profile

with December 25

strangely and evocatively elongated like a late-day shadow

which most likely dates from the mid-20th century

hydrometer was an old thermometer

Fantastic Folk Art Lion with Moveable Legs, Long Tail and Bared Teeth! geometric design and I interpret the imageThis lion was clearly made by someone special, and maybe for someone special too, and I sure love them for it. The shapes and positioning of the jointed legs make for a luxuriously long lion stride, and then this marvelous mane, done as an additional later and painted with blue and orange dabs, with little cutout ears layered on top of that, attached by nails. Plus great big carved white teeth against blood red lips, and a long stiff rope tail,