Two Awkward Carved Nudes - ONLY LEFT NUDE AVAILABLE primitive mallet with its four posted winder

with its four posted winder standing upright

and must say that when I received it it was quite dusty

when they were made by young men as gifts for the objects of their affection in hopes of beginning a courtship

if you're hungry

It appears that one can take the whole thing apart (if for example one just wanted to wear the handshake pin around)

Two Awkward Carved Nudes - ONLY LEFT NUDE AVAILABLE primitive mallet with its four posted winderRight nude SOLD; Left AVAILABLE One of my favorite genres of carvings has definitely become what I'd call awkward nudes clearly done with great care and sincerity, but not quite masterfully, with the faces especially betraying the idealized bodies and poses the carving was clearly hoping to achieve. For me, these embody a big part of what I love about folk art the embodiment of lots of aspiration, hard trying, and very often "failure". And so while