Wonderful Tall Primitively Carved Woman with Nailed on Arms baking dishes circa 1960s

circa 1960s

completely oblivious

This beautiful old kitchen tool might was probably used for mixing a wide variety of things

to the cabbage leaves rolled up in our girl's apron

clean slice off the front of her base

Wonderful Tall Primitively Carved Woman with Nailed on Arms baking dishes circa 1960sLong and lanky, one might take this carved figure for a male, except that her maker was clearly intent on giving her breasts and, perhaps sometime later, someone used a pencil to give her a subtle patch of pubic hair. Photos don't do her justice; this clearly old carving has a really great presence in person, with a really warm patina to the dry wood. I love her helmut like head of hair, raised, triangularly shaped nose and serene expression, chunky