Old Concrete Statue Hand Fragment antique marketing Visiting assistant professor Columbia University

Visiting assistant professor Columbia University

An incredible amount of detail--and number of dolls

There's no mark on it

A little research tells me that the Durkee family was important in the settlement of Oregon

perhaps it held his preparatory notes and research for it

Old Concrete Statue Hand Fragment antique marketing Visiting assistant professor Columbia UniversityThis is the smaller of two old concrete sculpture fragments I found together in Maine, I think from different statues as the concrete feels different between the two and this one shows a steel rather than iron structure inside. And how to resist an old concrete hand, missing fingers and all!? I might keep this one on the desk topping a pile of papers perhaps bills to be paid, which it suggests it might take care of in one's absence! 7 3 8" x 3 1 8" x