Antique Folk Art Carved Man in Coffin Box folk art root head decoy My photos show four of

My photos show four of the six images--with some recurrent characters from one to the next

with a great dry wood patina

who have come to sing

making her feel quite ghostly

gestures and the tension between them

Antique Folk Art Carved Man in Coffin Box folk art root head decoy My photos show four ofSurely this box once had a lid, which kept this little man locked tight inside. One sometimes sees figures like this with large phalluses attached, which spring up when the lid of the box is opened. There is a tiny hole on the rear of this one that suggests that could well have been the case; if so, someone disarmed him at some point long ago and seems to have given him pants to boot! I love him just as he is, with carved details giving him quite a