Big Stick: Dramatic c. Early 1900s Odd Fellows Folk Art Staff with Polychrome vase with glass tube Maybe a yellow crocodile

Maybe a yellow crocodile

There is one small hole punched through the white of the eye that would have been used for hanging

A little paint loss and a bit of minor flaking but stable and structure is very sound

and some dark spots in the crevices on the top of the head (hair

Big Stick: Dramatic c. Early 1900s Odd Fellows Folk Art Staff with Polychrome vase with glass tube Maybe a yellow crocodileQuite a thing, found in mid coast Maine last weekend, and which I have very much enjoyed carrying around since! Taller than a walking stick, and with a dramatic crook, I would call this a staff and have to think it had a ceremonial function surely wielded by an Odd Fellows Grand Master as an object of power, and seems quite an effective one for keeping the flock in line! With a beautifully carved face, black (finely eye lashed) eyes, long black beard