A DIMINUTIVE CARVED AND PAINT-DECORATED INDIAN FIGURE

POSSIBLY MARYLAND, 19TH CENTURY

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A DIMINUTIVE CARVED AND PAINT-DECORATED INDIAN FIGURE
POSSIBLY MARYLAND, 19TH CENTURY
33½ in. high, 13 in. wide, 11½ in. deep (overall)

Provenance

Helena Penrose
Parke-Bernet Galleries, Sale February 5, 1960, lot 100

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Lot Essay

A related example to the present lot suggests that this figure was carved in Maryland and that it was originally carved with feathers to the headdress (Edwin O. Christensen Early American Wood Carving (Cleveland, 1952), p. 44, fig. 11).

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