18th/19th C Large Carved San Roque Santos (Repaired Head) shaeds of green lid sitting flush

lid sitting flush

combined with yellow shirt and red pants--just a terrific color scheme I think

and intonation as character indicators

I spend many many hours creating--and performing for whoever would watch--dance routines of all sorts in the backyard

Repaired head as evident but the rest of her is  in very good shape

18th/19th C Large Carved San Roque Santos (Repaired Head) shaeds of green lid sitting flushThis carved santos is old I'm not an expert but might guess 18th rather than 19th and though he lost his head once along the way, his expressively carved hands are, rather miraculously, in pretty much perfect shape, one of them raised, the other at his knee with index finger pointing south. I am pretty certain he is meant to represent San Roque Saint Roch (patron saint of the sick, the wrongly accused, and dogs), who recovered from the plague, and is