Enigmatic Carved Folk Art Bust cow vertabrae This is one of the

This is one of the most wonderful Kuna Mola I have seen--picked from among a large collection of them from an artist and gallerist who dealt in them

who must at some point have been commemorated with their own deck of cards

held together with these gorgeous

and comes off entirely

Enigmatic Carved Folk Art Bust cow vertabrae This is one of theEvery time I look at this carving, I see it differently sometimes thinking it is a woman represented and sometimes a man; sometimes thinking African American and sometimes thinking it feels a bit Germanic or even Dutch. My best guess is it is a portrait of a black woman, and that the carving is American, but I don't know for sure. In any case, I really like how expressionistic it feels in addition to its elusiveness, which is amplified by the darkness