Green Cat and Tussling Kittens, Marvelous 19th C. PA Naive Watercolor in Period Frame alaskan eskimo from whom I've purchased a

from whom I've purchased a few other wonderful old things in the past--and when I saw this little carving come available

with a nice surface patina

There is a very old ding to the cork on one side

While one sees more complex paper weavings

and with this wonderful very thin strip of what I believe is cut paper snaking down the front of the bodice

Green Cat and Tussling Kittens, Marvelous 19th C. PA Naive Watercolor in Period Frame alaskan eskimo from whom I've purchased aPure love. I paid a good bit for this one Pennsylvania, late ish 19th c. I believe, likely done by a schoolgirl but there was no way I could walk away from it, and I'll be very glad to keep it for myself That green cat! And those kittens! I am not sure if another (purple) kitten at left, or perhaps a little hen (?) with either a ball, or an egg (!) at its feet. To my eye, this is just about the purest embodiment of the joys of a naive folk watercolor