Incredible Sculptural Antique Wooden Saddle with Original Rope Joinings swarming birds I also love how intrepid

I also love how intrepid she looks

To my eye quite a beautiful thing--a sculpture on its own

Photos describe it better than I can

The rest is ink and watercolor

Incredible Sculptural Antique Wooden Saddle with Original Rope Joinings swarming birds I also love how intrepidI found this wooden saddle in Massachusetts, though am not sure where it came from; I just found it a phenomenal sculptural object, which also reads quite like a very primitive, large mask when hung on the wall, with ear like pieces at top. Definitely it is quite old, with fabulous fat iron nails all over, a hand hammered iron strip along one curve, and then these two areas of woven and knotted rope on the face, looking rather like God's eyes and