Andrea Panella "The Story" Vintage Oil and Wax Painting on Canvas wabanaki thimble basket especially prominent antlers

especially prominent antlers

for which perhaps additional decoration was planned

Hand-painted and finely made

would originally have used to cut pieces of Areca nut--commonly referred to as betel nut

Poirer's work often included riddles and rebuses

Andrea Panella "The Story" Vintage Oil and Wax Painting on Canvas wabanaki thimble basket especially prominent antlersI'm quite taken with this small painting, which I can't stop looking at, and which has a fantastic presence and gravitas that I think far exceeds its small size, though its scale is exactly right. I see a green snake with bared teeth and fantastically long tongue, which winds through and around the rest of the forms, literally tying them together. I'd guess the painting titled "The Story" portrays Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, with red tree at