Crazy Carved Wooden Canister with Six Figures and Head on Top! tall bowl Ada has not come home

Ada has not come home from Great Falls

It slumps just a bit and is rusted in a few spots

or to use daily around the house

really--that show lots of time and effort invested

circa 1940s and all of 3 inches tall

Crazy Carved Wooden Canister with Six Figures and Head on Top! tall bowl Ada has not come homeTotally wacky, but pretty fun, and whoever made this certainly had a vision which they exerted a lot of time and effort to carry all the way through. I might guess this vessel was made to hold tobacco, perhaps in a tin that fit inside? I'm not entirely certain the identities of the historic, international cast of characters carved in relief around the faceted perimeter, or the identity of the head on top, but I do believe George Washington and John