Wonderful Large Carved Folk Art Muscleman Holding Basket Overhead rusty trivet and those fantastic black dots

and those fantastic black dots that vary a bit in size from side to side and sometime come right up against the edges

Below the top eye holes are a second pair of cutouts backed by hide pockets

dense on the front and sparser on the reverse

1 1/2" wide

I'd love it if this drawing had been made by the Robert Mueller as a kid

Wonderful Large Carved Folk Art Muscleman Holding Basket Overhead rusty trivet and those fantastic black dotsI don't know who made this folk art strongman, but I think he is really fabulous, and would be pretty great in an entryway offering an unforgettable spot to toss one's keys! Really, he looks to me most of all like an all American farm boy, maybe carrying a load of laundry in the basket overhead. And a super basket it is, too, nicely woven of colorful plastic wire cord of varying widths, with a wooden bottom, to which his hands are forever joined. Then