SOLD Very Wonderful Old Carved Folk Art Jointed Figure in Hand-dyed, Hand-sewn Dress waddell co The slide top is a

The slide top is a bit clunky but works fine and holds snugly closed

7 1/8" l x 4 1/2" t x 1/2" thick and in good shape

This fabulous thing

exactly centered between the two as if marking the center of the "ring

I love the spiky

SOLD Very Wonderful Old Carved Folk Art Jointed Figure in Hand-dyed, Hand-sewn Dress waddell co The slide top is aThis beauty is one of a number of wonderful old carved articulated figures today, this one straight out of an amazing West Coast collection of folk self taught outsider art, and my favorite of all. For me carved figures like are as close to animate as a handmade thing can be, and I always love the process of photographing them a sort of "getting to know you" experience, through which their very individual personalities (and souls, I would say!) reveal