Tall Bearded Man in Coat Old Canadian Folk Art Carving odd fellows mask and with holes for eyes

and with holes for eyes

I like the idea of this antique souvenir being used to mark places for future journeys in a giant world atlas

now seemingly forgotten except among enlightened educational organizations

The corners have a tiny bit of rounding to the them but are pretty darn close to square

and the other with a gridded rectangle

Tall Bearded Man in Coat Old Canadian Folk Art Carving odd fellows mask and with holes for eyesI believe this tall, bearded fellow is Canadian, but I don't know much more than that. With these white spatters on his face, coat and pants, I like to think of him as an artist (perhaps a self portrait), though he also looks a bit as if he might be just in from a long day fishing out in the rain or snow. I really love the intensity of his face, with this piercing dark blue eyes and straight line of a red mouth, and his exaggerated height, which gives