Plant Samples: Oats and Peas, Real Photo Postcards, Early 20th C., Boston - A Pair handmade wooden utensils 6" tall x 5 3/8"

6" tall x 5 3/8" at widest and in excellent vintage condition

it is pretty satisfying to turn the handle round and round

My guess is that it is a Shona sculpture---referring to the modern movement of carved stone sculpture from Zimbabwe that began in the mid-20th century

which just pops (though the polka dotted ends of her obi are pretty great too

Plant Samples: Oats and Peas, Real Photo Postcards, Early 20th C., Boston - A Pair handmade wooden utensils 6" tall x 5 3/8"Earlier this year I found and quickly sold a bunch of rppcs from the same batch as these two I just went back to the source and dug out this pair I missed the first time around. As a group, the images documented the growth of beans, corn, peas and oats in various soils and combinations, and I just love them as beautiful photographs, for their indexical nature, for the wonderful hand written labels on the planters, and for being, as far as I know,