Featured Who dis? Dancer / Parader Carving

This one is a mystery to me. Is it a Chinese parader with a mythical bear/lion costume? NWC NA or African tribal dancer? None of the above? Not an antique but I’d think a few decades old at least, probably up to 4-5 of them. No marks at all. Pretty nicely carved. The creature looks like a bear more than anything to me but some of these creatures aren’t always super literal looking. I’d think it’s roughly 10” long. I’d lean NWC but not confidently.
I forgot to get a photo of bottom. I’ll update with that to help ID wood variety.

 

Pretty piece of Mexican glass.

Debora

 

Yup...especially that heavenly blue!

 

Not NWC NA; they don't have any traditional dances that involve two people in a costume, so far as I know, and the eyes and eyebrows wouldn't be right for NWC.....looks much like a lion dancer...only clearly not a normal Chinese lion dancer.
A mystery to me.

 

Not that I know a damn thing about it...but the ears, if nothing else, suggest ursine; all else (eyebrows, eyes, nose, cheekbones an' teeth) are more human than animalistic...except perhaps for a few of the primates.
That's my 2 cents worth.

 

Yeh that two person thing didn’t work for me for NWC either but there’s enough I don’t know that I was still holding out hope. Thanks

 

Monkey man bear. This one is proving harder than I realized. I figured someone here would make some sense of it. Thanks

 

Catches the sun nicely.

 

For me it looks like Jaguar, not a lion and maybe it is Mayan Jaguar ritual costume.
I am not able to attach the pictures, because it is licensed. But here is the site.
https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-mayan-dancer-representing-ek-balam-jaguar-a-warrior-god-placing-foot-55410967.html

 

That’s a neat angle! It does have spots. That might help explain why the carving looks so un-Chinese despite the tradition of dancing with/in multiple person costumes there. I wonder if that tradition existed in Mayan culture? I see a lot of solo dancers when I google Mayan jaguar dancers. I don’t see a jaguar when I look at the face but they did do ears like this on some of their jaguar masks and there’s those spots…

 

This wood isn’t ringing a bell.

 

That bottom shot shows band-sawn evidence, I believe.

 

Cool piece of glass Dag-I also like the Bose sound machine !
PS-Your beautiful view reminds me of one of our favorite nearby coastal getaways-Astoria,Oregon-setting for 'The Goonies','The Ring' & 'Kindergarten Cop'.

 

Mine, too! Stayed at the Cannery Pier, back when I could afford it; Shopped at FogBound, I think it was called...2 floors, plenty of Maritime stuff, good gentle folks. Smoked oysters at Josephson's; Supper at Bridgewater or Fulio's. A sweet old town with beaucoup charm!

 

First time we visited Astoria,I was hit with the impression I was seeing 1870's San Francisco-the cascade of Victorian homes perched on the hills towards the Bay was stunning.

 

What I can see of the loincloth (?) (on the front person) looks like a Mesoamerican style. A few more views in a less cluttered setting might be helpful.

 

Thanks Bosko! That Bose center speaker is just a rando. It is however sitting on top of my first pair of Bose 901’s. I’ve wanted them my whole life. Finally got a pair a year of so ago. Local lady gave me a great deal. Her husband bought them for top dollar and sadly passed before ever using them. They sat in the garage for years after until I got them. She put all his records and stereo equipment on the curb shortly after he passed because she couldn’t stand seeing it. Luckily the speakers never left the garage once he brought them home. He was a big rock n roll guy, as am I. She was really happy to know I was going to be rocking out with them like her husband would have. I showed her part of my record collection that was very similar to her husbands taste and let her know they’d get cranked for a long time to come. It seemed to be very cathartic for her.

I love those views up in OR too! I walked and explored a good portion of the coast from SD to north of Portland. It amazed me that as beautiful as the coast starts down there it only gets prettier and more dramatic every step you take north.

 

I too, always wanted 901's !!!
I was so proud of my 301's ........ but went with B&W'S , cuz I never had a big enuf room for those majestic Bose !!

 

Way North of me you'll find the Gulf Islands off the coast of Vancouver Island- as spectacular as is the indigenous art produced up there.

 

BTW-901's first introduced in 1968-hell of a year for music,and naturally sound equipment.