Weird and Wonderful Folk Art Carved Vertebrae (?) Bone Bat! pretty darning egg as means of compiling knowledge

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The back sides

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

and even better with a special pointed end flourish like this one

I have found a couple of matches of this fan online

Weird and Wonderful Folk Art Carved Vertebrae (?) Bone Bat! pretty darning egg as means of compiling knowledgeThis 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