Curious Carved Driftwood Angel Mounted to Slate white wooden horse 6" l x 2 1/4"

6" l x 2 1/4" wide x 1 1/2" and in perfectly imperfect antique condition

an indigenous people living along the Ucayali river in the Amazon basin east of the Andes

Lubbers & Bell made a few different editions of the puzzle peg game

but I love it even more knowing its origins and that its brown body

world is a wilderness

Curious Carved Driftwood Angel Mounted to Slate white wooden horse 6" l x 2 1/4"Definitely a curious one, I believe made of a piece of driftwood, in which someone saw a figure and decided to help it along a bit in fully emerging. The face looks to be a knot in the wood, into which two dots for eyes were carved, and then a bit more carving to give detail to an angel with halo, wings, clasped hands, and a "W" for feet at the other end. A small wonder! Either its maker or someone later glued it to a slab of green gray slate; one