Wonderful Carved, Painted Antique Mechanical Birds - Sold Individually wooden toys I believe a mask like

I believe a mask like this one would have been used in initiation rituals

This piece

and they are structurally super sound and stand up very straight

precise little stitches

25 tall and just short of 3

Wonderful Carved, Painted Antique Mechanical Birds - Sold Individually wooden toys I believe a mask likeI think these are amazing. I've come across a few others (though none as lovely), but no one ever seems to know anything about them. I think most likely they were part of a cuckoo clock or something similar, where some sort of mechanics would periodically trigger their wings to raise and beaks to open perhaps simultaneously producing a chirp chirp! I like these stuck in a small vase like flowers, or you could stick them in a small planter, to circle