Lot 296 — Carved Stick with a Green Lizard, Feathers and a Horn Tip
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Lot 296 — Carved Stick with a Green Lizard, Feathers and a Horn Tip

A carved stick with a face on top, a green lizard climbing the shaft, a bunch of feathers and a dark curved tip.

Artist
Unknown maker
Dimensions
Not yet measured
Materials
Carved and painted wood, cord, feathers, horn-like tip

Pickup only, South Loop dockNo shipping on this piece. Ye collect it at the dock in Chicago’s South Loop, and ye pick a pickup time once it’s paid for.

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SKU: WW-296 Category:

Description

A long stick that has had a good deal done to it. The top is carved as a small face, bound below with cord. A bunch of striped feathers hangs from a thong. A green lizard with a ridged back clings to the reddish shaft, modelled in the round. Further down there is a ring carved like basketwork and a collar cut in scales like an acorn cup, and the stick ends in a dark, curved, horn-like tip.

The shaft has a warm red-brown grain. The paint on the lizard is bright and the feathers are a little ruffled. We do not know who made it or where, so we will only say that nobody will mistake it for anyone else’s.

Dock pickup in the South Loop.

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