Curious Old Carved Green Marble Obelisk with Various Symbols carved boot and then the pitcher-type flower

and then the pitcher-type flower with tall stamen at right

This fantastic horse was one of a phenomenal set of old handmade Punch and Judy puppets

who apparently appeared to Juan Diego on Tepeyac Hill

with a soft ochre yellow for the interior of the ears and black squiggles all over for the fur

Curious Old Carved Green Marble Obelisk with Various Symbols carved boot and then the pitcher-type flowerThings like this intrigue and delight me with their primitiveness and earnestness and sense of purposefulness that seems now rather mysteriousness and unknowable. Found in Maine, certainly it was a folk creation maybe, with heart dangling on what might be taken for a chain on one side, a valentine of sorts, or maybe an offering to the gods in hopes of love! What's going on the other sides is a bit less clear, but looks rather like hieroglyphics, and