Red Spotted Old Carved Folk Art Monkey with Moving Arms old whimsy The Coushatta are a matrilineal

The Coushatta are a matrilineal society native to Southwest Louisiana and are renowned for their wonderful baskets made of coiled pine needles and raffia

with a hanger on the back

the chain with loop is 4 3/4" long

with stairs marching down---I also love its internal tensions and contradictions

I'd guess this unsigned painting on a heavyweight paper/light cardstock dates to the 1970s or so

Red Spotted Old Carved Folk Art Monkey with Moving Arms old whimsy The Coushatta are a matrilinealThis wonderful monkey came from the estate of the late Chicago based collector and arts patron Ruth Horwich, who was among the founders of the Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art in 1967, and later a Trustee. She and her husband Leonard collected for more than half a century an eclectic mix of folk, nave, and outsider art as well as many works by Chicago Imagists, and and a large collection of work by Alexander Calder. Clearly her great eye ran to