FOLK ART CARVED CANE: PATRIOTISM AND REPTILES

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This cane is fully carved, features a suitably patriotic eagle head with open beak on the end of the handle, set off by three inlaid, irregularly shaped mother of pearl inlays on the smooth, curving neck (three on the right, three on the left, and four along the center,) and has a raised United States shield positioned on the inside of main body of the cane about two-thirds of the way down the shaft. The shield is stained a dark reddish brown, as are the other raised decorative elements, setting them off against the light brown of the cane body, which is carved with incised lines for its entire length forming swirling, overlapping leaves. Across this leafy ground crawl several reptiles: a small turtle near the top; two lizards- one crawling up the cane and the other down; and long snake slithering up the cane, fitted with white bulging eyes, as is one of the lizards, a tail showing rattles, and a checkered, diamond motif on the top of its head, which is used on the lizards also, but when combined with the rattles is perhaps meant to evoke a diamond-back rattler.

The condition is excellent. There are some very minor rubs, but no cracks, chips or missing elements. The mother of pearl inlays look rather crude from the irregular shapes, but are probably meant simply to be as-found. The color and surface overall are excellent, with the colors having a somewhat lustrous tone, and the images evoking the creatures crawling over the leafy floor of a forest, which is an interesting contrast with the more conventional, patriotic motifs of the eagle’s head and the U.S. shield, which might suggest a Civil War veteran at work- or leisure. [sr][ph:L]

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