Weird and Wonderful Folk Art Carved Vertebrae (?) Bone Bat! pretty darning egg this one seems the oldest

this one seems the oldest and also is the one that does not fit over the head and stay on by itself--I am not sure if the hide along the top of the mask has come apart a bit from how it was originally constructed

and surely there are many sorts of things it could be used for now

and also large enough to make a nice sculptural object for the wall

The Man of the World and the Christian

with one stray mark on the doll's cheek

Weird and Wonderful Folk Art Carved Vertebrae (?) Bone Bat! pretty darning egg this one seems the oldestThis crazy and I think pretty amazing thing! Its a bat, but appears to have been carved from what I think must have been a lumbar vertebrae, I would guess from a cow. One hole was drilled through for the eyes and a slit for the beak, and Im not quite sure what other interventions! The whole thing was stained and mounted to a wooden panel, which has a good amount of age. Pretty excellent, and though Ive seen a few other folk art creations made of