Battered Vintage Sandpaper Surface Wooden Skate Deck with Druggie Cartoons carte de visite the stories or fables are

the stories or fables are specific to the Inuit population of the Western Canadian Arctic where Nanogak was born and raised

This guy though has strings still attached to head

with "Matches" subtly carved into the surface of the match pocket

I purchased them from a favorite dealer in my neck of the woods--with a wonderful eye for the very most tender things

I just love this image--taken in the very early days of the Salvation Army's existence in the United States

Battered Vintage Sandpaper Surface Wooden Skate Deck with Druggie Cartoons carte de visite the stories or fables areNot my usual sort of thing, but I do try to be open to everything, and the hand drawn cartoons on the face of this much battered skateboard deck struck me as contemporary versions of a antique folk art sandpaper drawings! And, like those naive 19th century drawings of landscapes and castles and sailboats on water, these drawings of personified bong and joint and bottle of pills are very much of their time! The reverse is really quite beautiful too,