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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 Willard Chauvin carves a bird from tupelo gumin his workshop.

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Photographer: Nicholas Spitzer

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Photographer: Willard Chauvin

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