Hand-Carved Wooden Man with Hidden Tools! charming bear leaf and bird design may

leaf and bird design may the most exquisite among them

this very fine Northwest Coast Salish tightly coiled lidded basket dates I believe from the late 19th or early 20th century

Certainly one can never have too many books

I don't think this coffee pot has ever been used

This Garuda-shaped Indonesian nutcracker

Hand-Carved Wooden Man with Hidden Tools! charming bear leaf and bird design mayThis guy may just be my new very favorite thing! And I have not been able to find another like him out there anywhere. When I found him, I quickly realized his carved wooden head pulled out of his body to reveal a knife attached, which I thought might be used as a letter opener, but it was not until I began photographing him that I realized his legs, terminating in those fabulous boots, pulled out as well one to reveal a pencil and the other an ink