The Bone Pickers

Iron base, aluminum pedestal, bone fragment, vintage lineol figures
9.5" X 6.25" Diameter

Price $155.00

Traditionally, bone pickers scavenged materials (rags, bones, and various metals) and survived on the proceeds of what they collected each day.  The idiomatic expression, to pick a bone, on the other hand, has meant to quarrel or to dispute over something.  These sheep have clearly picked all the meat off this bone, leaving only a bone of contention.

Selected for the 44^th Annual Association of Hawaii Artists Aloha Show Juried Exhibition,
March 2014, Juror: Harry Tsuchidana.