Chunky Antique Two Balls in Cage Folk Art Whimsy with Tobacco Tags woman with mirror and the legs as separate

and the legs as separate layers

perhaps packed with emergency supplies

including the phenomenal Hector Hyppolite

This little needle book make have seen better days

but its no wonder she's the subject of much romanticism and many many images

Chunky Antique Two Balls in Cage Folk Art Whimsy with Tobacco Tags woman with mirror and the legs as separateA satisfyingly visceral primitively carved old folk art whimsy, with these two large, fat balls barely contained by the cage. What I especially love is that pierced into the wood at one end are two old tin litho tobacco tags, Spark Plug and Uncle Sam, which date it to right about 1900. (And if there were ever a tobacco tag that seemed just right for a whimsy, spark plug seems it to me!) I also love the that the "bars" of the cage are not perfectly