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| David Allen is a visionary walking stick carver whose ideas come to him in dreams or in visionary flashes of imagination. He draws on his African-American traditional Southern background for his motifs such as four leaf clovers, spirals, diamonds, snakes, and animals. | Hugh "Daddy Boy" Williams of New Orleans uses the traditional African tale about the"Signifying Monkey" as a motif on a walkingstick. The monkey at the top of the stick argues with a tiger, snake and, perhaps as a Louisiana element, an alligator |
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Photographer: Nicholas Spitzer Click image for a larger view. |
Photographer: Nicholas Spitzer Click image for a larger view. |
