Hand-carved Lounging Hound carved fruit pit multiplication

multiplication

and a bit of folding/tearing along the very bottom edge

all of which will shuffle around just a bit when shook

which I believe would once have covered a light box

with concentric rings of orange

Hand-carved Lounging Hound carved fruit pit multiplicationI really love the face as well as the ultra long body of this carved wooden dog, which I understand from the seller was found in Cuba years ago. I'm terrible identifying species but with its long snout I have to think a hound, and looks maybe like a Borzoi to me? A good combination of elegant and just a bit goofy, looking as if luxuriating in a favorite spot, perhaps in front of a fire, and as if casting a smile in one's direction and almost as if