Charming Old Folk Art Clay Skunk with Bristle Tail wise man and these great wings that

and these great wings that also feel a bit like cresting waves

with a little roughness to the wood around the left ear and a faint dark line running horizontally along the back

then later taught at Washington University in St

when medical doctors were unable to keep human skeletons for study and teaching purposes

Charming Old Folk Art Clay Skunk with Bristle Tail wise man and these great wings thatI found this hand formed clay skunk, dipped in a thick black, almost tar like (but not sticky) coat, at a show in Pennsylvania this past summer, and have just enjoyed having him sitting around for a while. Something about the shape of those individually sculpted and applied legs really does it for me, and then this bristle tail too. I have some notion that the tail had a function like the bristles found at one end of old cork screws used for clearing