Big Stick: Dramatic c. Early 1900s Odd Fellows Folk Art Staff with Polychrome vase with glass tube I’ve learned from a brilliant

I’ve learned from a brilliant Dutch instagram follower that it is based on a c

and some dark spots in the crevices on the top of the head (hair

Box measures 5 1/16” x 5 1/16”

I find it incredibly expressive and potent

There is one small hole punched through the white of the eye that would have been used for hanging

Big Stick: Dramatic c. Early 1900s Odd Fellows Folk Art Staff with Polychrome vase with glass tube I’ve learned from a brilliantQuite a thing, found in mid coast Maine last weekend, and which I have very much enjoyed carrying around since! Taller than a walking stick, and with a dramatic crook, I would call this a staff and have to think it had a ceremonial function surely wielded by an Odd Fellows Grand Master as an object of power, and seems quite an effective one for keeping the flock in line! With a beautifully carved face, black (finely eye lashed) eyes, long black beard