Early 20th C. Basketry Covered Carved Barrel with Interior Drawer and Relief Carved Flowers Peruvian bowls with faces I found this painted wood

I found this painted wood sculpture of a seal or sea lion balancing a ball at the estate sale of an artist

but what fantastic detail on these tennis players

and what is with this giant hand she is holding out toward him

surely it was thrown up like a balloon and shot at mid air

Early 20th C. Basketry Covered Carved Barrel with Interior Drawer and Relief Carved Flowers Peruvian bowls with faces I found this painted woodI have seen (and bought and sold) exactly one other basketry covered carved barrel of this sort, that one dated 1922 and from Maine. This one I found in PA, but I might bet it was made by the same person, or some small community of individuals such a curious hybrid, and so particular, with the basketry seeming Native American, I'd speculate Mi'kmaq, and the rest very naive American folk tramp art. The basketry on that one was somewhat more elaborate,