Beautiful, Sensitively Carved Wooden Bust, Presumed Native American or Inuit figure eights Phillips Collection

Phillips Collection

and the pencil drawn details all over

Stable condition now

sweetly noting that this is a tricky one

and writing in sharpie on the back of the board and individual pieces

Beautiful, Sensitively Carved Wooden Bust, Presumed Native American or Inuit figure eights Phillips CollectionLove at first sight with this one she called to me loudly through the glass of the locked case of a dealer based in New Hampshire and there was no way I could walk away. Just a beautifully executed, super sensitive carving I think, wonderful from every angle and down to every detail. (The carving of her hair, especially where the lines of one section cross over top of the section that frames her face, just breaks my heart.) Indigenous American I am