Tiny Cherokee Carving of Woman Holding Bowl by Watty tables and quite extraordinary

and quite extraordinary

with the text pages extracted from a different book/binding

falling asleep

" adopted by the company in 1883 after a painting by the Swiss artist Jean-Étienne Liotard called Das_Schokoladenm

4 5/8" at tallest

Tiny Cherokee Carving of Woman Holding Bowl by Watty tables and quite extraordinaryA quick search led me learn that the "Watty" who signed this tiny carving was Cherokee carver Wahdih Watty Chiltoskie (1897 1973), who came from a family of carvers. There is not a lot out there about him, but I've included a photo of him at work. Among the few examples of his carvings that I've found, this tiny woman is definitely my favorite, looking wonderfully serene and grounded, with her seated body itself feeling rather like a bowl for the bowl