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This is a vintage hand-carved wooden figurine of a labor figure, such as a cargo porter or man carrying a bundle/cotton bale, commonly associated with mid-20th-century folk art carvings from Haiti. This item is 24 inches tall and 7 inches wide at the base.
The piece is signed “C. Simeon” on the bottom. Members of the Simeon family (most notably Fritzner, Carlos, and F. Simeon) are highly regarded in mid-to-late 20th-century Haitian sculpture for their elongated, stylized human forms that capture the everyday life, movement, and resilience of workers
