Curious Old Carved and Painted Folk Art Wall Box with Birds and Hands - or Cacti! Odd Fellows Scraps of Horace the Heathen

Scraps of Horace the Heathen Poet

I like to hold a piece of pottery in my hands before buying it

and scared out of his mind

and what great hats and dresses

Curious Old Carved and Painted Folk Art Wall Box with Birds and Hands - or Cacti! Odd Fellows Scraps of Horace the HeathenThis one I found in Pennsylvania and find super curious. The painting on the front has a Southwestern flavor, and then on both sides are what look striped sleeved arms ending in hands with pink painted fingernails.. but which one also could perhaps instead take for flowering cacti! And then on the back, two stylized bird with pin pricked outlines that feel very Pennsylvania, making this feel like quite a hybrid thing. 1940s I would think, though