Opinionator | Summer Game: Can You Guess What This Is?

RULES
1. Player has not seen the photo beforehand.

2. Player must try to give context for the photo.

PLAYER
Jeff Garlin is a comedian and filmmaker who directed and appears in the new movie "Dealin' With Idiots." He will also be in "The Goldbergs," a new ABC comedy this September.

Twitter name: @jeffgarlin

PLAYER'S GUESS
It's a child's clay sculpture that was broken by his mom, who thought it looked nothing like her. She felt bad the next day and glued it back together. Days later the child had much ice cream.

ANSWER
It was carved by an elderly man named Miles B. Carpenter. Miles did have a childlike spirit. He was known for driving around Waverly, Va., with life-size wooden dolls riding shotgun. Miles owned a sawmill and ice plant, which led him to sell cold sodas and scrap wood carvings outside his house. After he died in 1985, his home was preserved as a museum, where his sculptures are now displayed, including his homemade driving companions.

On Thursday and Friday, readers submit their guesses. See them in the comments below.

MY FAVORITE COMMENT
"This ceremonial ashtray has been passed down for generations. It is meant to represent a phoenix rising from the ashes accumulated in the ashtray."
— OMY, Los Angeles, CA

MOST ACCURATE COMMENT
"fabulous folk art, handcarved, painted with brilliant pigments, wooden frog leaping around on a (Persian?) rug. Artist portrayed it in mid-air, coming in for a landing. (hold the photo upside down…)

the artist is impressed with this creature's fabulous mouth. So am I.

I would like to guess the prehistoric Devil Frog, who lived in Madagascar and ate tiny dinosaurs, but it's more likely the currently endangered Goliath frog from a small habitat on the West Coast of Africa.

At any rate, it is absolutely lovely."
— mnydgs, hawaii

Come back next week to take a guess on a new clue.

Tamara Shopsin is a graphic designer, illustrator and the author, most recently, of "Mumbai New York Scranton."