Three Headed Carved Folk Art Totem of Sorts white house and what a happy thing

and what a happy thing that it has endured

1868 and May 30

reflecting the particular skills and personality of its maker

I really love the increasingly distressed face of this child

Three Headed Carved Folk Art Totem of Sorts white house and what a happy thingA curious one for sure, which I love for its strangeness and its crudeness one has the sense that its maker chose their three very favorite carved heads and then made this tree like platform in order to give them a home! Maybe even a sort of family tree? The effect of the overall composition, with two heads leaning in and one sitting atop, is to give a sense that one is being confronted by them as if one were a little carved figure oneself, wandering