Painted Wooden Folk Art Bull collectible box I think this lidded bowl

I think this lidded bowl is truly a gorgeous object

This is a lovely Penobscot (Native New England) splint ash and sweetgrass basket woven around a glass jar to serve as a vase

and wraps around nearly half of the vase

) for one's favorite fisher-person

Painted Wooden Folk Art Bull collectible box I think this lidded bowlI love that this little old bull was really made with "no bull" just a silhouette cut out from a piece of wood, painted brown with a stoke of cream for the belly and dab for the eyes, and then a piece of wire through a hole for the horns and a piece of twine for the tail. Can't argue with a thing about it pretty perfect. He's definitely old the wood has split a bit, and the tail has come unravelled, but I rather think all the better for it. Really a