Wonderful Carved Vertebrae Head with Hat Naef red Labyrinth have had an affiliation with

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Really nice

hand-embroidered face

and the brass looks very much to me like  melted down shell casings

Wonderful Carved Vertebrae Head with Hat Naef red Labyrinth have had an affiliation withThere is a strong Inuit tradition of carving human and owl faces from whale vertebrae, and also a 19th century tradition of carving and painting vertebrae to resemble John Wesley (1703 1791), the British religious leader and founder of Methodism. This carving though carved from the vertebrae of what type of animal I am not sure does not seem an easy fit for either category, and seems to be just its own very special thing! And quite a character he is,