Evocative 1877 Plaster Portrait Mold of Bearded Gentleman wooden envelope with paper loss on just

with paper loss on just a few blocks

but I do believe she is meant to be a ballerina

My guess is that it comes from the Baker Lake region of the Kivalliq Region

The armadillo measures 7 1/2" long x 1 3/4" tall x 1 3/8" wide

Versus Taken with Little Variation from the Tombstone of Margaret Scott

Evocative 1877 Plaster Portrait Mold of Bearded Gentleman wooden envelope with paper loss on justI think I'd be way less interested in the cast plaster portraits created from this than I am in the mold itself, which I find super evocative and a bit haunting too, with all of its patina now making it feel a bit like a momento mori. I don't know who this man was, but there is a date of 1877 carved into the back. Around the perimeter is an old iron wire holding it together one assumes added at the time it cracked along his shoulder with a beautiful