Curious Old Brass Wood Splitting Man Folk Art Match Holder (?) antique handmade shaker brush Tepton comes from a line

Tepton comes from a line of Inupiaq wood and bone carvers

with red tree at center and ambiguous

My photos of this are not great (not scanned

and think one can never have too many

singular thing that certainly no one really needs

Curious Old Brass Wood Splitting Man Folk Art Match Holder (?) antique handmade shaker brush Tepton comes from a lineIt was suggested to me when I purchased this that it was a piece of trench art, and I think that it likely, with the canister made from a shell casing and the little chopping man cut from from some scrap. In any case, it's certainly it's own special folk art thing, and I really love this smiling but very focused looking fellow very intent on the task at hand, which looks to me to be splitting a piece of wood. Incised on both sides, and serving as a