Fabulous Old Make Do Folk Art Figurative Toy Skittles in loving memory and with really terrifically weathered

and with really terrifically weathered painted surface

and I'd guess second half of the 20th century

with its rainbow colored beads

as if to say

while placing the far fingers in the hands

Fabulous Old Make Do Folk Art Figurative Toy Skittles in loving memory and with really terrifically weatheredThese wonderful things! With their great color combinations and especially their fantastically shaped hats and bases, they remind me think a bit of Constructivist sculpture and even more so of the costumes in Oskar Schlemmer's Bauhaus Triadisches Ballett (Triadic Ballet), but their sweet hand drawn faces are pure folk. The bodies of most appear to be made of old tool handles, with knobs and other bits and bobs used for the hats and bases, just