Whence Came You Vintage Freemasons Sign clay woman the slatted compartments

the slatted compartments

This is a lovely Penobscot (Native New England) splint ash and sweetgrass basket woven around a glass jar to serve as a vase

The bar upon which they hang measures 2" across

mossy green

with no missing stitches that I can see

Whence Came You Vintage Freemasons Sign clay woman the slatted compartmentsI nabbed this painted metal sign just because I liked it, but I've since come to understand that "Whence Came You?" is a phrase central to Freemasonry, apparently intended to provide profound thinking about the meaning of life, self, and what it means to be a Mason. The history and rituals of the Freemasons seem incredibly complex, so I won't even try to get into them here, but I do think they claimed a pretty great phrase! And certainly hanging this