Curious Pair of Old Carved Birds (Falcons?) on Posts handprinted make do sign But one can see a

But one can see a little house and maybe a church with steeple too on the far horizon

Man or woman I am not entirely sure

either Tlingit and Haida

which from what I understand were an early took for teaching spelling in school

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Curious Pair of Old Carved Birds (Falcons?) on Posts handprinted make do sign But one can see aI purchased this these from a dealer based in Pennsylvania, but really don't know anything specific about them. I take them for falcons, calling to mind ancient Egyptian ones; they also remind me of a couple of old men standing on the corner talking about sports and neighborhood news! It seems possible they actually functioned as decoys of sorts, as there are a bunch of holes in the wood, as if a woodpecker went to work pecking away at them, and I