Arms Open, Sweet Old Carved Folk Art Figure in Polychrome signed Chinese pith painting with a hairline split to

with a hairline split to the wood handle on one side

I especially love the incorporation of what I take for a utility pole at lower right

and a bit mysterious too-- with no doors or windows

kicking off with the lyrics (by W

This stunning Makah Northwest Coast Native American beargrass lidded basket

Arms Open, Sweet Old Carved Folk Art Figure in Polychrome signed Chinese pith painting with a hairline split toA very sweet one, giving me great joy to find, looking in part as if embodying a certain lost ness, but also as if it spreading his arms in readiness of a hug. Very tender, and hugely empathetic, and a bit melancholic, even existential feeling, too. There appear never to have been hands, just these stubs at the ends of the arms, which seems just right for the gesture, and in keeping with the naivete of it all. Purchased from a dealer in my neck of the