Arthur Tilo Alt Childhood Drawing of Carpenter, Berlin, WWII era acoma pottery bowl I have found just a

I have found just a couple of other old carved folk art monkeys with a similar construction--seated like this

A couple of chips to the surface of the frame along the top

near the base over the poem

from whiskers to tail

if this one doesn't grab your heart

Arthur Tilo Alt Childhood Drawing of Carpenter, Berlin, WWII era acoma pottery bowl I have found just aThis is among a several drawings I purchased together by Dr. Arthur Tilo Alt (1931 2019) a scholar and professor of German in Yiddish language and literature in the Judaic studies program at Duke University which came from his estate in Younsgsville, NC. Born in Java, Indonesia, Alt's family returned to their native Germany in 1933, where Tilo grew up in West Berlin, ultimately moving to the U. S. in 1956 to study at the University of Texas. While I