SOLD Very Sweet, Very Naive Antique Hand-carved Acrobat Toy Made by Neal, Fifth Grade antique pigment a lovely portrait of an

a lovely portrait of an adventuresome looking young woman in hat

which I'm guessing does not refer to his holiness

with the bottom edge of the original photo the white strip that rakes at a diagonal about 2/3 of the way down

This pottery is created by women of Shipibo tribe of the Peruvian Amazon

Really quite an amazing piece of work

SOLD Very Sweet, Very Naive Antique Hand-carved Acrobat Toy Made by Neal, Fifth Grade antique pigment a lovely portrait of anAbout as naive an old carved "acrobat" toy as it gets, which is why I really I love it. I learned from a note accompanying this sweet thing that it was published in Eleanor Lakin's 2013 Folk Art for Children: Handmade in America 1760 1940. (Well worth checking out, lots of fabulous things featured alongside this one!) I presume it was the creation of a young "Neal, Fifth Grade," which is written in graphite on one side of the face. Penciled features