Antique Architectural Ornament Mold: Leaf signed Inuit sculpture and I love the clunky

and I love the clunky screws and bolts attaching them to his torso and red paint too

meaning made using only a knife--and if there were ever an object that would seem to embody the act of whittling

A fun object

or as a gift to a dear daughter on the anniversary of her arrival in the world

Antique Architectural Ornament Mold: Leaf signed Inuit sculpture and I love the clunkyI see a lot of old wooden industrial molds but only occasionally do I across across ones like this, filled with a pitch wood resin mold material, and used for casting ornaments for architecture, molding and picture frames. This is the smallest of several I'm listing, which photographs don't quite do justice (I've shot it a couple of different light situations to try to give a sense) the mold itself has a really visceral presence, feeling like a cross