Weird and Wonderful Folk Art Carved Vertebrae (?) Bone Bat! antique doll with real hair The face of the disk

The face of the disk shows brown where it was once white

Endless hours of fun and wisdom to be gleaned for sure

but with its solid black ground also looks really sharp against crisp white bedding

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Weird and Wonderful Folk Art Carved Vertebrae (?) Bone Bat! antique doll with real hair The face of the diskThis crazy and I think pretty amazing thing! Its a bat, but appears to have been carved from what I think must have been a lumbar vertebrae, I would guess from a cow. One hole was drilled through for the eyes and a slit for the beak, and Im not quite sure what other interventions! The whole thing was stained and mounted to a wooden panel, which has a good amount of age. Pretty excellent, and though Ive seen a few other folk art creations made of