Old Naive Drawing of Native American Warrior with Bow and Arrow huge stoneware bowl This dark green painted bentwood

This dark green painted bentwood box features finely rendered flying gold-painted cranes or herons amid curling lines evocative of clouds or water

Paint loss and some rusting as evident

and with conveying character through specific details

I’ve found a few other of Vytlacil's drawings from the 1970s that very closely align with these

I had to dig around a lot to find another of these Bennington Potters spoon rests

Old Naive Drawing of Native American Warrior with Bow and Arrow huge stoneware bowl This dark green painted bentwoodThis one I found along with the three soldiers in a row I just listed, and if this Native American warrior were facing the opposite direction I'd think they were about to face off. I'm glad for that not be the case for the arrow here instead to remain forever ready but never fired, with its diagonal beautifully echoed by the feathers of his hat and counterpointed by the opposite diagonal of his quiver. Surely done by a young boy long ago, and I think