Beautifully Carved Old Ruby Throated Hummingbird 1980s with wonderfully detailed trees

with wonderfully detailed trees

can be configured in all sorts of ways

with this pair (one connected piece) seeming to signify 'calm down' to me

Carved of tusk with intensively detailed scrimshawing to the back and around the face

it's just a cool sculptural object to add interest to (or hold up

Beautifully Carved Old Ruby Throated Hummingbird 1980s with wonderfully detailed treesIt's been a great summer for hummingbirds here, buzzing around all over, but also forever buzzing away.. nice, then, to have one anchored in place! And an elegant old carved one this is, perched via wire legs atop a turned wooden base with bulb atop, as if it were sitting atop the world. With dark red paint on its throat and under it tail feathers, and very nicely carved detailing. To actual scale I believe, and very much capturing the spirit of the