Big Stick: Dramatic c. Early 1900s Odd Fellows Folk Art Staff with Polychrome antique photograph Aside from the loss of

Aside from the loss of some toes in very good condition

but it strikes me as just right the way it is

or the identity of the head on top

which show what I believe is called "crawling shino"--an effect caused by the glaze shrinking during drying and then separating into clumps

As you likely know

Big Stick: Dramatic c. Early 1900s Odd Fellows Folk Art Staff with Polychrome antique photograph Aside from the loss ofQuite a thing, found in mid coast Maine last weekend, and which I have very much enjoyed carrying around since! Taller than a walking stick, and with a dramatic crook, I would call this a staff and have to think it had a ceremonial function surely wielded by an Odd Fellows Grand Master as an object of power, and seems quite an effective one for keeping the flock in line! With a beautifully carved face, black (finely eye lashed) eyes, long black beard