Carved and Intensively Decorated Vintage Wooden Snake wood plane backed with leather and with

backed with leather and with a safety pin stitched on

I purchased this piece at the estate sale of gallerist Cynthia Numark Prelack

And I must say it does take some attention to properly match them

but occasionally the graphics on something will just jump out and call to me--and really

Carved and Intensively Decorated Vintage Wooden Snake wood plane backed with leather and withThe shape of this snake remind me a bit of that of a boomerang, and the inked black and gold decoration all over feels a bit Aboriginal Australian too, but I don't know for sure where I came from just that I think its a pretty great snake, just the right size to keep on one's desk, or put on someone else's as a surprise! Nicely carved head with open mouth and white teeth inside. 10 1 2" long measured as a straight line from head to tail; 4 1 4" across