These two pieces have been sitting around the shop - and tumbling around my head - for some time, so I finally decided to do something with them. The original intent was to make a goblet with the Red Mallee wedge, then I put these two pieces together - not just a simple process of "putting them together" like it may seem, but a lot of stacking, restacking, reversing, "hmmmmmming" etc. until I either finally got the right combination or got tired of fooling with them - and the rest, as they say, is history. I decided to call it "Desert Sphinx"; my wife decided I've been out in the sun too long; and the neighbors decided that I must be weird. Well, here it is anyway. The Manzanita root is 5 inches long.