Aura-full Early Tntype of a Folk Art Painting of a Young Child painted walnuts 13 1/4" t x 2

13 1/4" t x 2 1/4" w x 7/8" deep

A bit of spotting on her face and body

It looks to me that our woman in magenta and orange is potting or tending to a plant

carved bone alphabets

Someone more knowledgable than I identifies it as 19th century Scandanavian

Aura-full Early Tntype of a Folk Art Painting of a Young Child painted walnuts 13 1/4" t x 2I'm forever on the hunt of early photographs of folk art paintings, and photographs of photographs, too (representations of representations, emblematic of the emergence of new modes of representation, and also emblematic of the want to preserve pieces of the past and carry them forward) and I believe this is both a tintype copy I'd guess of an daguerreotype or ambrotype of a painting of a young child. [The other possibility I suppose would be a