SOLD Possessed Looking Carved Kangaroo! gouache and colored pencil as one of the boxes

as one of the boxes in this obsessively detailed attic reads “Bar Harbor Dress Shop

and one of my favorite things about some of them are their plated cedar bark bottoms--so I was sold immediately upon finding this one

graphic quality of this vintage woven textile

There is a little hole at the center of the decorative cutout at top by which it could be pinned directly to the wall

It thus felt rather serendipitous to find this Skansen souvenir (“minne

SOLD Possessed Looking Carved Kangaroo! gouache and colored pencil as one of the boxesIt took me a moment to place this curious creature, but I'm pretty certain its meant to be a kangaroo. And rather a possessed looking one too, though I think really just in need of some love! And actually, as I look at photographs of kangaroo as I write this, I might say this carver did manage to capture some of their strangeness fairly well and perhaps this one is meant to be a protective mother! Incidentally, the terms for male and female kangaroos