Hand-carved Lounging Hound carved fruit pit with concentric rings of orange

with concentric rings of orange

from Sandoval County in New Mexico

multiplication

with lovely handwritten text interspersed throughout with delicate little drawings diagramming the reproductive parts of various plants

which I believe would once have covered a light box

Hand-carved Lounging Hound carved fruit pit with concentric rings of orangeI really love the face as well as the ultra long body of this carved wooden dog, which I understand from the seller was found in Cuba years ago. I'm terrible identifying species but with its long snout I have to think a hound, and looks maybe like a Borzoi to me? A good combination of elegant and just a bit goofy, looking as if luxuriating in a favorite spot, perhaps in front of a fire, and as if casting a smile in one's direction and almost as if