Antique Olive Wood Relief Carving with Bible, Arrow, Club, Tools grids our miss Carlotta

our miss Carlotta

and just quite a nice looking thing hanging down the wall--maybe right next to the freezer

a documenter of Canadian folk and outsider art

I grabbed it

and a moon

Antique Olive Wood Relief Carving with Bible, Arrow, Club, Tools grids our miss CarlottaIt took some searching but I am fairly certain this carving was made in Jerusalem, late 19th early 20th century I believe, quite wonderfully carved of beautiful olive wood, with a combination of symbols arranged to form a sort of cross, arrow on one diagonal, what I take for a club on the other, Bible at the center. Someone more knowledgable that I might readily discern the symbolic meaning of each object, but as with Masonic imagery, I'm quite