Three Headed Carved Folk Art Totem of Sorts white house 1868 and May 30

1868 and May 30

reflecting the particular skills and personality of its maker

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

I know nothing about it or where it came from

Three Headed Carved Folk Art Totem of Sorts white house 1868 and May 30A 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