Nice Old Painted Wood Rattle Blocks - Five Blocks, Five Different Rattles wax steak about 9 inches from top

about 9 inches from top of figure's head to end of strings

but it might just be my new favorite thing

Drawn in pencil along the top edge of the painting one can just make out “Kikuyu” (though not the the word that follows it)

and with painstaking inlay work along all of its edges

"3" measures 8 1/8" t x 4 7/8" w x 1 1/2" d

Nice Old Painted Wood Rattle Blocks - Five Blocks, Five Different Rattles wax steak about 9 inches from topThese are akin to the wooden nesting boxes painted in primary colors I am forever looking for, but blocks instead of vessels, and with beads of various sizes inside, giving each one a different sort of rattle. Good stacked into modernist formations, or used as pedestals for other things, or just tossed around. 2 13 16 cubed. Set of five. General wear with a little paint loss here and there, all very sound and sturdy.