William Steig’s Persistent Faces 1945 First Edition pressed birch bark I believe the figure represented

I believe the figure represented in Tasap (Tasaf)

but was done in the 1930s by Helen Wagner Malta (1912-1975)

again which looks darker in photos than in reality

1 1/2" d (at head

perfectly irregular heart and curl decoration and with hanging rings at the ends

William Steig’s Persistent Faces 1945 First Edition pressed birch bark I believe the figure representedA great one from 1945 by New Yorker cartoonist, illustrator and childrens book writer William Steig, featuring 91 line drawn caricature portraits of types from "the Tool" to "the Investor" to the "Merry Widow", "Fall Guy", "Boy Scout", "Ambulance Chaser". etc. This was Steigs fourth book of "symbolic drawings," expressing what he called "the psychopathology of everyday life." A great gift for ones favorite keen observer of character, or for the coffee