Amazing Handmade Gorilla Mask, from NBC Television ceramic serving pot Good for stashing bills and

Good for stashing bills and other things (to be attended to later) inside

This one--labeled "G" in what surely was a whole series--makes me think he had tired of the textile designing exercise by this point

with just the right amount of dings and scratches

which brings both the details of the casting and their terrific silhouettes into sharp relief

and the stone appears well worn with a dip in the middle from use

Amazing Handmade Gorilla Mask, from NBC Television ceramic serving pot Good for stashing bills andThere 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