Wonderful Old Hand-carved South American Slingshot with Mother, Child, and Hearts in Polychrome jewlery great studded collar

great studded collar

I'm increasingly fond of early paper covered cardboard boxes

Pure greatness in the way that children's drawing can achieve

This would benefit from a piece of board or cardboard placed over that plastic to press the needlepoint tight against the front of the frame

but reads very clearly as a skull

Wonderful Old Hand-carved South American Slingshot with Mother, Child, and Hearts in Polychrome jewlery great studded collarThe loveliest example of a figurative slingshot as I believe I've ever seen, and just a marvelous carving which I take as a tender portrayal of the love of a mother for her child (and determination to use a slingshot or any other means necessary to protect him!) I am pretty certain this is Guatemalan, where the slingshot is a traditional handicraft, distinguishable by the forked end, which would be strung with the sling; one sees these incorporating a