Three Headed Carved Folk Art Totem of Sorts white house which its citation referred to

which its citation referred to as an "Active Sammy"--"the first action figure

this one I think c

1868 and May 30

extracted from a notebook that was already coming apart when I found it

I think the face and hair of this girl is just fantastic

Three Headed Carved Folk Art Totem of Sorts white house which its citation referred toA curious one for sure, which I love for its strangeness and its crudeness one has the sense that its maker chose their three very favorite carved heads and then made this tree like platform in order to give them a home! Maybe even a sort of family tree? The effect of the overall composition, with two heads leaning in and one sitting atop, is to give a sense that one is being confronted by them as if one were a little carved figure oneself, wandering