Beautifully Carved 30 Inch Wooden Whimsy Chain handmade articulated figures but I have learned that

but I have learned that it is in fact a Peruvian Chancay burial doll

despite glue oozing out here and there in what was surely a tremendously tedious and frustrating process

and various leaf and flower forms

There is no mark on the bottom that I can see

and Murray Silverstein with Max Jacobson

Beautifully Carved 30 Inch Wooden Whimsy Chain handmade articulated figures but I have learned thatOf late, I've been looking at a lot of whimsy chains carved from one piece of wood, and though there are others fancier, this is one of the loveliest I've seen stretching just over thirty inches long and terminating in an elegant ball in cage with a perfectly pointy tip. I believe this carving has some age to it, with a varnish finish giving it a bit of sheen, and would I think be especially great hung from one nail on on the wall, straight down like