Young Caeser (?) Painted Plaster Bust with Metal Laurel Crown Shipibo bowl a UNESCO world heritage site

a UNESCO world heritage site filled with thousand year old Viking rune stones and burial mounds

I'm always on the hunt for interesting whimsies carved from one piece of wood

and any loose seams were lovingly mended long ago--she's super solid and sound

and for the  great combo of colors all together

Young Caeser (?) Painted Plaster Bust with Metal Laurel Crown Shipibo bowl a UNESCO world heritage siteI have no idea the story behind this plaster bust, but I think it's wonderful. I love how completely androgynous the figure is, who I take for a young Roman, perhaps Julius Caesar himself, crowned with metal laurel wreath but really I think it could be anyone one wants, and without the crown reminds me a lot of an old Santos figure. The figure's face itself transforms a little, too, depending on point of view, so he, or she, or they, remain always a