Figurehead-like Carved Bust, Woman with Wild Hair slides and one could grab dice

and one could grab dice and any little things to serve as markers and play it now

but I'd likely hang it on the wall balanced on small nails under each side of the head

a note in a different hand to please bring up the thumbtacks

I believe it likely dates to the late 19th century or so

Figurehead-like Carved Bust, Woman with Wild Hair slides and one could grab diceAnother one found this week in Maine, and this carved bust of a woman with thick head of seemingly wind blown hair looks a lot like the figurehead at the bow of a ship to me. (It thus seems right that she might have taken a bump to the nose at some point along the way!) Well carved, making great use of the grain of the wood, which adds to a sense of dynamism, as if she's pushing her way through the world, with a wonderful sort of wildness and