Amazing Handmade Gorilla Mask, from NBC Television numbers game set against the iridescent body

set against the iridescent body which shows shades of green

I'm never one to pass by a charming hand puppet

and hints of which show up in this abstracted "Still Life

as "Damn the torpedoes

five layers deep

Amazing Handmade Gorilla Mask, from NBC Television numbers game set against the iridescent bodyThere was pretty much no way I could leave this behind once I had seen it. First, it's amazing! But also, it's been beaten up and lived a life and been mended all over, which has rendered it, for me least, quite a tender, complex, and rather heart breaking object. I know that it originally came from NBC television, and would guess it dates to the 50s or 60s. (There is a fun website Hollywood Gorilla Men which really digs into the history of gorilla