Folk Art Pyrographed Flying Pheasant on Fungus Conk cowboy with great details from that

with great details from that sculptural hair to bangled wrists to fancy heels

The year 1855 appears on one plate

He is fairly light in weight and seems perhaps to have been carved from driftwood

At left appears to be a large farm house

so I think most likely he was always a part of it

Folk Art Pyrographed Flying Pheasant on Fungus Conk cowboy with great details from thatI found a great fungus conk pyrographed with an owl a month or two ago by the same maker that signed this one, both of which I purchased from the same dealer. As with that one, I love how this flying game bird, a pheasant I would guess, looks rather as if it emerged from the fungus conk itself, always there, and as roughly rendered as the craggy back side of the conk. I also like that it can be displayed sitting up, face front, or on its back, face