Painted Cardboard Candy Container Man, Presumed c. 1920s German Native American drawing and forward stretched arm

and forward stretched arm

The palette

which makes it all the more beautiful to me

The body is densely decorated all over with pressed patterns

Painted Cardboard Candy Container Man, Presumed c. 1920s German Native American drawing and forward stretched armThough he's lost a fair amount of paint over the past 100 years or so, I really love little thing, which is an old cardboard candy container. I've learned that these were quite a thing, some made of papier mache and some of hard pressed cardboard, which I believe this is, stapled along seams on the sides and top. At the bottom is a wooden stopper, which I don't think is original, but which works just fine for the purposes of plugging the bottom and