Chinaberry Wood Carved "Parasite" Frog for the car 9" wide x 8 1/4"

9" wide x 8 1/4" deep x 8 7/8" tall

This is a lovely Penobscot (Native New England) splint ash and sweetgrass basket woven around a glass jar to serve as a vase

gouache on paper

The hand-painted design--really a drawing on clay--reminds me of a  map with shape-shifting land masses

perfect condition

Chinaberry Wood Carved "Parasite" Frog for the car 9" wide x 8 1/4"Part of the pleasure of being out hunting for things is discovering whole genres of things one never new existed. Like this frog! I've now learned that frogs carved from Chinaberry roots are a thing. Apparently, the Chinaberry tree is prone to a specific wood parasitic infection which causes the tree branch to burst open, exposing the insides and creating the "root like" features seen on this one. Carved with a knife and chisel, I think it's a pretty