Poignant Old Carving of Miner with Pick Axe painted tin dominoes (I can just picture Ernest

(I can just picture Ernest Hemingway bringing this back from one of his African hunting trips

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Poignant Old Carving of Miner with Pick Axe painted tin dominoes (I can just picture ErnestI find this a pretty poignant carving, embodying a sense of honest labor both in terms of the subject and the manner of the carving, and drawing a bit of a parallel between the miner with his pick axe and the carver with his chisel, at least in my mind. It looks to me that he has a headlight on his hat, and then this stoic face with straight mouth and bulbous nose, looking as if he has been hard at work for many many years, and, sleeves rolled up, is