Primitive toys... Several times when I was a girl, Dad and I would sit at the picnic table and he would make me animals from corn stalks. He pulled out his pocket knife and began to cut figures from the slightly green stalks .... Using the various parts of the stalk and silk or tassle ...he would make cows, horses, pigs...of course with fences to corral them ... I remember he would pick a large stalk for the body and the smaller for legs.. tapering them to a flat edge .. he then slit the body and shoved the slitted end of the leg, neck or what ever into the body. he even put horns and utter on the ol cow...For the utter he used the pith from the middle so he could whittle it smooth and he put four little teats on it... I was so impressed.... He was able to cut a curl in the stalk for her two horns.... He stuck the animals together with pegs made from the outter casing of the corn stalk.. I have never seen anyone other than him do this... it was mesmerizing.... to watch him.. it was cool and the sun warm on our sweatered backs... just me and him on a Saturday afternoon... whittling... Have any of you ever seen this? Cher