Very Old, Very Primitive Hand-card Figure with Marvelous Face jointed donkey 7 5/16” d and in

7 5/16” d and in excellent antique condition

When the citizens refused to pay for his services as promised

and what a striking example this is

while simultaneously fortified through their (smiling) presences

handwritten on a paper "Fancy Furs" label from Cotrell & Loeonard fur shop

Very Old, Very Primitive Hand-card Figure with Marvelous Face jointed donkey 7 5/16” d and inI don't know the origins of this one, but clearly it is quite old, the wood worn very smooth, and with some remnants of a sort of bittersweet paint visible on both the head and the body. The carving of the lower body suggests it might once have slide inside of something else, or perhaps was wrapped in cloth perhaps a fertility fetish figure of sorts. Whatever the case, to my eye it doesn't get much better than that very primitively carved face. And