Fabulous 1950s Folk Art Woven Paper Over Wood Rattlesnake on Cardboard steel weight there have been many iterations

there have been many iterations of figures with very long noses

but I've looked at enough of these to believe it is mid 1800s

His early commercial prints often bear the blindstamp of the editor

11" t x 2" wide (across at belly)

I hope--or perhaps for a former Manhattanite like me

Fabulous 1950s Folk Art Woven Paper Over Wood Rattlesnake on Cardboard steel weight there have been many iterationsA note on the back of this wonderful snake tells us that it was made in spring or early summer 1957 at a YMCA in Washington DC as the bottom of a pipe rack which definitely makes me wish I could see the whole pipe rack, and also makes me think the classes at that particular YMCA must have been pretty amazing. It appears that the snake was carved of wood then very painstaking decorated with layers of brown and black cut paper, laid down layer by layer,