Carved Old Wooden Mountain Man Hermit with Bark Beau Brummel with the clay body showing

with the clay body showing through especially on and near the foot

as well as a hairline crack on the interior near one of the hinges and overall wear/aging to the interior bottom half

And I believe there would originally have been nine of them

and the bone one just a hair smaller at 1/4"

Carved Old Wooden Mountain Man Hermit with Bark Beau Brummel with the clay body showingI guess these sorts of men, carved out of (into?) a knotty old piece of wood with bark still on it, are often referred to as mountain men, or wood spirits. I think of this guy as more of a hermit, and in fact he makes me think of Saint Francis in the wild, living at peace among the forest and animals. Though not easy to photograph (he absorbs all the light!), he's quite wonderfully done I think and definitely quite old; the wood is worn smooth with a