Wonderful Carved Vertebrae Head with Hat vintage boyscout I'd like to think she

I'd like to think she was the carver's mother or grandmother

Signed on the bottom and in excellent condition

with just a bit of loss of gold on the rim around the base

especially around the holidays

especially known for his work for children’s books and his belief in making artwork that respected and nurtured a child’s imagination

Wonderful Carved Vertebrae Head with Hat vintage boyscout I'd like to think sheThere is a strong Inuit tradition of carving human and owl faces from whale vertebrae, and also a 19th century tradition of carving and painting vertebrae to resemble John Wesley (1703 1791), the British religious leader and founder of Methodism. This carving though carved from the vertebrae of what type of animal I am not sure does not seem an easy fit for either category, and seems to be just its own very special thing! And quite a character he is,