Japanese Vintage Wooden Puzzle Cubes - Sold Individually handmade animal I've really fallen in love

I've really fallen in love with the relatively simple but dynamic surface decoration on traditional Acoma pottery

with the Kansas City Star writing

no indices

This is a beautiful--and heavy

It seems to me to show the influence of South American figurative pottery (Shipibo pottery comes to mind)

Japanese Vintage Wooden Puzzle Cubes - Sold Individually handmade animal I've really fallen in loveI think it is likely a sign of these times, but everywhere I go physically and virtually I find myself picking up wooden puzzles. These two are Japanese, and I must admit I am wary of taken more than a few pieces apart for fear of not being able to put them back together. It is actually a but of a puzzle to even figure out how to begin; it took me a minute to find which piece on each had a little give to allow the taking apart process to begin and the