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

spanning 1st grade to high school

especially around the holidays

There is some spotting on its base

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,