Buck with Bright Eyes and Soaring Antlers, Beautifully Rendered 19th Century Graphite Drawing ancient stone tool I am not at all

I am not at all on expert on Mexican dance and festival masks

The head was carved from three pieces (vertical layers) of wood

It is definitely an old one

I’ve always got an eye out for old art school color charts and the like

as if to suggest a diminishing presence

Buck with Bright Eyes and Soaring Antlers, Beautifully Rendered 19th Century Graphite Drawing ancient stone tool I am not at allI'm continuing to dig out of a stack of paper acquired from a favorite PA paper dealer when I was down for the Allentown show nice when you have a pile that keeps delighting you as you pull from it, with this stag greeting me square in the eye! Beautifully rendered in graphite and jumping right off the page, as if just startled in the woods and now acutely attentive, determining whether to flee. Feels like both portrait and metaphor. 6 5 8" x 5 1 2",