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

and a few light scrapes on the handle/

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