Strange Posture, Curious Gesture, Antique Snapshot of Women in Long Coats and Bonnets old carved bird make me swoon (see detail

make me swoon (see detail photos

though he's got a pretty empathetic face

9 1/2” inches tall x 4” widest diameter

with the words "Bird of the air No

I belief the chief represented here is most likely Southwestern Pueblo

Strange Posture, Curious Gesture, Antique Snapshot of Women in Long Coats and Bonnets old carved bird make me swoon (see detailA very curious one, feeling to me like an early film still very striking, but what is going on here? Perhaps the woman in the foreground (what a face!) is in fact on ice skates, which would explain her strange posture, or perhaps she is hiding something or someone behind her skirt? (Is there a child there, bent over, in black too?) And what is the woman behind her with raised arm as if about to chop the air actually doing? I don't know, but in their