Weird and Wonderful Folk Art Carved Vertebrae (?) Bone Bat! pretty darning egg and surely there are many

and surely there are many sorts of things it could be used for now

with one stray mark on the doll's cheek

I have found a couple of matches of this fan online

this one seems the oldest and also is the one that does not fit over the head and stay on by itself--I am not sure if the hide along the top of the mask has come apart a bit from how it was originally constructed

The back sides

Weird and Wonderful Folk Art Carved Vertebrae (?) Bone Bat! pretty darning egg and surely there are manyThis crazy and I think pretty amazing thing! Its a bat, but appears to have been carved from what I think must have been a lumbar vertebrae, I would guess from a cow. One hole was drilled through for the eyes and a slit for the beak, and Im not quite sure what other interventions! The whole thing was stained and mounted to a wooden panel, which has a good amount of age. Pretty excellent, and though Ive seen a few other folk art creations made of