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Malya's Art Pieces: Stick Figure Wood Carving

This set of wood whittled stickfigures was given to me by a woman woodcarver from Ifugao way back 1998. I affectionately called her Malya . Well, I actually bought them in a way. I was working for the Women's Program then and she was one of our clients. She came seeking me out in my office one weekend at dusk. I called her in for coffee but she said that she just needed to leave her bag of curio wares for safekeeping. I asked that she give me a list of her inventory. I sat with her as she brought out 15 pieces of woodcarvings. I inspected the figures as two pieces of the set had broken arms. Malya sighed. She said that her son would surely get mad of her carelessness in handling her wares. She continued to say that both of them had worked all night finishing this set so she would have something to sell the next morning. She needed to go see her ailing mother in the Province and she was hopeful that she could have cash that day. S...