Wave Splitters

Pair of wave splitters from Papua New Guinea circa 1940's 50's. Both carved from different wood, the darker one being a dense hardwood- painted with trade pigments and worn & weathered from time at sea. Collected from ebay this past month.

Bone Man

Standing Inuit figure carved from whale bone, beautiful porosity and lightness to this material, slightly more crude in it's crafting than this guy. This one came from ebay Canada.

*This is post number 666.

LBC/11/09

Long Beach loot from Sunday, I liked this flea, manageable scale-straight parallel aisles easy to navigate and and a little stranger and less curated/precious than the Rose Bowl-adding it to the rotation.

Seated stone figure,Costa Rican, possibly pre Columbian?-not sure, but it's spent time in the ground and has been re-decorated with enamel paint at some stage. Vintage sweatshirt with strange home stitched tornado & storm cloud diagrams-go figure. Another nice Serape, 1930's-40's with perfect silk fringe. 2 shopcoats/aprons made from repurposed canvas flour sacks, 1940's, thrifty tailoring.

In house relatives here, here and here.

Whale Hunter

Inuit whale bone carving of a fisherman, the harpoon is missing, as is the whale, presumably the figure would have been kneeling either on ice or a boat. The patina is beautiful on this, I was told it was turn of the century, and either Alaskan or Canadian I don't know too much about these pieces, but it may be my favorite Rose Bowl find to date.

The vendor also had some very creepy WW2 era shrunken head replicas made from goat skin and other great/weird things, confirming my theory that if the seller looks anything like Ronnie Van Zant, or even a Skynyrd fan they usually have good stuff.