SOLD Very Wonderful Old Carved Folk Art Jointed Figure in Hand-dyed, Hand-sewn Dress camel and rider Some paint loss on one

Some paint loss on one white one with little black spots (my favorite)

which is held tightly along the slides but slides open

Some toning around the labels

it was done on thin wove paper

SOLD Very Wonderful Old Carved Folk Art Jointed Figure in Hand-dyed, Hand-sewn Dress camel and rider Some paint loss on oneThis beauty is one of a number of wonderful old carved articulated figures today, this one straight out of an amazing West Coast collection of folk self taught outsider art, and my favorite of all. For me carved figures like are as close to animate as a handmade thing can be, and I always love the process of photographing them a sort of "getting to know you" experience, through which their very individual personalities (and souls, I would say!) reveal