Arms Open, Sweet Old Carved Folk Art Figure in Polychrome signed Chinese pith painting This stunning Makah Northwest Coast

This stunning Makah Northwest Coast Native American beargrass lidded basket

and from what I can tell the two tins were once one piece

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A wonderful object--visually striking

this one may especially speak to me personally

Arms Open, Sweet Old Carved Folk Art Figure in Polychrome signed Chinese pith painting This stunning Makah Northwest CoastA very sweet one, giving me great joy to find, looking in part as if embodying a certain lost ness, but also as if it spreading his arms in readiness of a hug. Very tender, and hugely empathetic, and a bit melancholic, even existential feeling, too. There appear never to have been hands, just these stubs at the ends of the arms, which seems just right for the gesture, and in keeping with the naivete of it all. Purchased from a dealer in my neck of the