Very Old, Very Primitive Hand-card Figure with Marvelous Face white bird along with the right edge

along with the right edge of the photo

with incised round eyes on either side of the head and a shell pattern on his back

The one pictured in the drawing

Found with a blue and white stopper

the top just lifts off- and snaps closed tightly

Very Old, Very Primitive Hand-card Figure with Marvelous Face white bird along with the right edgeI don't know the origins of this one, but clearly it is quite old, the wood worn very smooth, and with some remnants of a sort of bittersweet paint visible on both the head and the body. The carving of the lower body suggests it might once have slide inside of something else, or perhaps was wrapped in cloth perhaps a fertility fetish figure of sorts. Whatever the case, to my eye it doesn't get much better than that very primitively carved face. And