Amazing Handmade Gorilla Mask, from NBC Television sled dogs but featuring George Washington and

but featuring George Washington and the like) which sold in a Skinner Auction a few years ago

especially on one side where the wood is showing through on the lower body

which makes it feel simultaneously stately and rather coziness inducing

and I would guess German

Amazing Handmade Gorilla Mask, from NBC Television sled dogs but featuring George Washington andThere was pretty much no way I could leave this behind once I had seen it. First, it's amazing! But also, it's been beaten up and lived a life and been mended all over, which has rendered it, for me least, quite a tender, complex, and rather heart breaking object. I know that it originally came from NBC television, and would guess it dates to the 50s or 60s. (There is a fun website Hollywood Gorilla Men which really digs into the history of gorilla