Carved Old Wooden Mountain Man Hermit with Bark accessory MA in a house filled

MA in a house filled to the brim with a lifetime's accumulation with all sorts of wonderful things

texture color and gesture

and the shell casing is bent where it meets the blade

namely some glue that oozed out a bit on the lower sections of both sides

and the curves of the double banded rim that tops its neck

Carved Old Wooden Mountain Man Hermit with Bark accessory MA in a house filledI guess these sorts of men, carved out of (into?) a knotty old piece of wood with bark still on it, are often referred to as mountain men, or wood spirits. I think of this guy as more of a hermit, and in fact he makes me think of Saint Francis in the wild, living at peace among the forest and animals. Though not easy to photograph (he absorbs all the light!), he's quite wonderfully done I think and definitely quite old; the wood is worn smooth with a