Amazing Handmade Gorilla Mask, from NBC Television sled dogs and with terrific proportions

and with terrific proportions

which makes it feel simultaneously stately and rather coziness inducing

but featuring George Washington and the like) which sold in a Skinner Auction a few years ago

Among my personal favorites: “Alas

Amazing Handmade Gorilla Mask, from NBC Television sled dogs and with terrific proportionsThere was pretty much no way I could leave this behind once I had seen it. First, it's amazing! But also, it's been beaten up and lived a life and been mended all over, which has rendered it, for me least, quite a tender, complex, and rather heart breaking object. I know that it originally came from NBC television, and would guess it dates to the 50s or 60s. (There is a fun website Hollywood Gorilla Men which really digs into the history of gorilla