Unusual and Very Fabulous Antique Figural Hand-carved Folk Art Pipe Bowl carved wooden totem I just love this pot

I just love this pot

individually carved boots still attached

but when I happened upon this painting close to home

but she does pay homage to primitively carved animals of earlier times

which I hope was the case

Unusual and Very Fabulous Antique Figural Hand-carved Folk Art Pipe Bowl carved wooden totem I just love this potSuch a curious one, purchased from a favorite dealer friend in Maine, the source of many a wonderful thing. She appears to be a pipe bowl, carved entirely of wood (one piece of her torso, one for her lower half) with the bowl of the pipe at her crotch and the stem of the pipe extending from her rear end! She is also hinged at the hips not a lot of give there, but some; I'm guessing that when smoked she rocks a bit to and fro! (One would just needs a