Charming Old Folk Art Clay Skunk with Bristle Tail wise man Smallest piece: 8 1/4" x

Smallest piece: 8 1/4" x 4 5/8"

where some sort of mechanics would periodically trigger their wings to raise and beaks to open --perhaps simultaneously producing a chirp chirp

then later taught at Washington University in St

Just looking at it makes me want to plan a train trip in order to carry it along

and these great wings that also feel a bit like cresting waves

Charming Old Folk Art Clay Skunk with Bristle Tail wise man Smallest piece: 8 1/4" xI found this hand formed clay skunk, dipped in a thick black, almost tar like (but not sticky) coat, at a show in Pennsylvania this past summer, and have just enjoyed having him sitting around for a while. Something about the shape of those individually sculpted and applied legs really does it for me, and then this bristle tail too. I have some notion that the tail had a function like the bristles found at one end of old cork screws used for clearing