Very Old, Very Primitive Hand-card Figure with Marvelous Face white bird The one pictured in the

The one pictured in the drawing

like a cheerful cottage on a rainy day

the top just lifts off- and snaps closed tightly

with very fine details and the pin nicely soldered to the back

Blue green paint under the gold and cream

Very Old, Very Primitive Hand-card Figure with Marvelous Face white bird The one pictured in theI 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