Beautiful Vintage Nazca Lines Incised Stone early staffordshire Less the lost ribbon

Less the lost ribbon

and especially the strangeness and suggestiveness of the lumps in the sheets around her

is a widely collected Canadian folk art sculptor and woodcarver who

and the smiling ghosts

with a small nick at the right lower corner

Beautiful Vintage Nazca Lines Incised Stone early staffordshire Less the lost ribbonQuite a good one to add to the curated rock pile or set on the desk or carry around in one's pocket. I believe the incised eight legged creature is based on ancient Nazca Lines a group of geoglyphs created between 500 BC and 500 AD in the soil of the Nazca Desert in southern Peru. This came from the estate of a collector who travelled extensively in Central and South America and I'm guessing picked it up as a souvenir of sorts somewhere not ancient,