Wonderful Carved, Painted Antique Mechanical Birds - Sold Individually wooden toys each only fits well where

each only fits well where it is)

I believe a mask like this one would have been used in initiation rituals

from morning sun till dine

as if to say

Wonderful Carved, Painted Antique Mechanical Birds - Sold Individually wooden toys each only fits well whereI think these are amazing. I've come across a few others (though none as lovely), but no one ever seems to know anything about them. I think most likely they were part of a cuckoo clock or something similar, where some sort of mechanics would periodically trigger their wings to raise and beaks to open perhaps simultaneously producing a chirp chirp! I like these stuck in a small vase like flowers, or you could stick them in a small planter, to circle