Edwin Willard Deming Signed Bear Couple Small Sculpture fertility doll I am fairly certain this

I am fairly certain this beautiful tall wicker basket

and decidedly non-fierce

fabric (in a great array of colorful prints

5" tall x 5 1/4" across at handle

Edwin Willard Deming Signed Bear Couple Small Sculpture fertility doll I am fairly certain thisThe connection between these two little bears is about the most tender thing I can imagine, expressed across every inch of this small sculpture, from the expressions on their faces, to the wrapped arms, to their lined up little toes! The piece is by Edwin Willard Deming (18601942), an artist best known for his depiction of scenes of Native Americans in the Southwestern U. S, among whom he lived for a part of each year for most of his life, and by whom