Wonderful Painted Folk Art Carving of Woman in Brown Dress Native American bowl shoulders and base

shoulders and base

with a number of different versions produced over the years

with a barley there face in orange

took a pledge of total abstinence and  met once a week to listen to lectures and participate in activities

Wonderful Painted Folk Art Carving of Woman in Brown Dress Native American bowl shoulders and baseSo many wonderful things in the world that people have felt compelled, for one reason or another, to create, and which arrive to us now like gifts from the past, feeling like old friends. This woman sure felt like to me that when I spotted her from a distance, calling loudly to be found! And how much I love her, with these great broad shoulders and black eyes, seeming sturdy and stoic despite her lost toes (and part of one arm) but also looking